I remember reading a review of Garanca's Carmen. The reviewer said everyman in the audience at the Met would have left their mothers to follow her into the mountains by the end of the first act. Funny, and very true.
Having watched the entire opera: the amount of dancing, (and vigorous, passionate, constant movement in general) Ms Garanca does, I'm in AWE!!!! To sing that beautifully and brilliantly, while constantly moving around takes a special talent and discipline. Brava, Signora 👏 💐
I think she's fantastic in this role. I've heard people saying that ''she is too elegant to be a Carmen''... In my opinion she totally owned the character, i mean, she has a different culture, a completely different ethnic background and she looks here like a gypsy, love her acting and her amazing voice!!!
ok, she's good, but i am french and i unterstand nothing except the chorus. If you want the greatest artist search maria callas ua-cam.com/video/Za5V6NQDc2Y/v-deo.html
This is just so magnificent. Watching this reminds me of everything I worked so hard to change in my life, everything I succeeded with and everything I failed at. It makes me feel renewed energy to keep working towards my goals, even as they grow distant before me. My passion has never died, never will. Thanks to music and performances like this.
This scene is so cool! Sensuality, passion, energy... Imagine the slap in the face for the public in Paris in 1830 something when this was created... They were used to see only royal characters in opera and here they see a fiery gypsy femme fatale...
Much earlier opera has non-noble characters, including peasants, though. Don Giovanni and saucy peasant girl Zerlina? It wasn't Bizet's first opera featuring non-noble characters, either. I think it may be somewhat of a myth overall that Carmen was such a shock, based on a rather inaccurate image of nineteenth century stuffiness - certainly people complained, but then, someone always does.
Wow. This is Bizet, and there's no microphone on Garanca, folks. To bring that much physical energy to a scene like this, and to seamlessly fill the Hall with that voice...I've never seen anything like it. Bravo!
Sorry but I don't quite understand. The song so can someone try and explain what the women is saying or is there another way of teancelating it English ??
@@eleanorstrange5409 The rods sistrums tinkled With a metallic luster. And on this strange music The zingarellas were rising. Basque drums went their train. And the crazy guitars Squeaked under stubborn hands, Same song, same chorus. Tra la la la la, Tra la la la la la. CARMEN, FRASQUITA and MERCEDES Tra la la la, Tra la la la la. CARMEN The rings of copper and silver Shine on the dark skin; Orange or red zebra The stuffs floated in the wind: The singing dance was getting married At first indecisive and timid. More lively then and faster, It went up, up, up! Tra la la la la la, Tra la la la la la la la. CARMEN, FRASQUITA and MERCEDES Tra la la la, Tra la la la la. CARMEN Bohemians with a twist, Their instruments were raging, And this dazzling fuss, Bewitched the zingaras! Under the rhythm of the song, Ardent, crazy, feverish, They indulged, intoxicated, Take it by the whirlpool! Tra la la la la, Tra la la la la la. CARMEN, FRASQUITA and MERCEDES Tra la la la, Tra la la la la. .
This is simply fantastic! The best Carmen I’ve seen. I was in the live HD broadcast that day and I’m sure all our jaws were dropping from this powerful perfect Carmen…
I love this Carmen and Elina and Roberto are WOW. I also love that as a Latvian she is so modest, not arrogant because there are so many fine opera singers from such a small country. The training is so good. But Elina for me is still the best mezzo in the world. And she owns the stage. This Met opera was easily the best production I have seen. Epic.
I just read her autobiography. It was deeply personal and beautiful. She talked about growing up in Latvia at her grandparent's farm. When I first watched Elina's interviews I was struck by how authentic and real she was. When I read her book I understood why. I highly recommend it
ElinaG is Carmen....We will just have to live with the fact that AngelaG never did it, except for a highlight or two, and be glad that ElinaG was so perfect...
Triste sort de Bizet, pour qui cet opéra fut un échec, et qui n'a jamais su qu'il deviendrait le plus populaire de tous, ou du moins l'un des plus populaires! Ah, s'il avait pu voir cette production, et cette Carmen, la Carmen parfaite, celle pour qui le rôle semble avoir été fait!
Elina è stata meravigliosa in quest'opera. È chiarissimo che ha imparato la lezione da Callas: è una attrice bravissima, e la sua voce è esattamente quello che si potrebbe desiderare, semplecimente PERFETTA.
I watched it tonight together with my almost 5-year-old son through Met Opera's free nightly opera streams during the coronavirus pandemic. I am in awe. This is my favorite part, as well as the very end. Thank you Met Opera, words are not enough. I am so grateful.
Wow, she's a dancing queen. She rocks indeed, such a plenty of visual delight.. The only thing is it's just so different from the classical opera i used to see that i feel like i'm watching a musical only with operatic vocal..i don't know maybe i'm conservative.. Truth is that she set herself up and proved herself as a dynamic and dramatic singer in opera world.
Oui ça fait plaisir une artiste étrangère quasiment sans accent. Mais c'est une bosseuse(dressée à la russe !), elle n'est jamais dans l'approximation !
Excellent performance! Please, write conductor's name and orchestra in description of videos like this. They do a lot of significat work, we should know them!
She is loosely based off of one of her ancestors La Esmeralda Senior. So expy: Esmeralda Senior the streetcast from The Notre Dame of the Streetcast and the Hunchback = Carmencita from Carmencita.
I just saw "a" Carmen done by the Seattle Opera, the motorcycles, and Zuniga getting kicked in the balls by Carmen did not come off well. The male chorus phoned in their lines, aw geez, had to come here to get my faith back. Thanks Elina.
Besides, she deserves to be an Official Romantic Walt Disney Princess Senior of the Walt Disney Animation Features Canon Senior in two years around July 24, 2019 as all 4D cgi animated.
La Gran Elīna Garanča, nos regala su maravillosa version del Pasodoble de "Carmen" de George Bizet o la mas Española de las Operas escrita por un Frances! Hombre que no lo he dicho yo! Ja!
The thing that makes Elīna Garanča so amazing as Carmen is not just that she played the role, she owned it. She really made the character so believable with her seductive charm and her amazing voice. Elina IS Carmen! Hands down!
Согласна, Анатолий Калмыков. Прямо "зараза" какая-то: с тех пор мало кого еще могу в этой партии слушать. Ждем возвращения после рождения второй дочери.
this music never fails to get me up and DANCINNNN
I remember reading a review of Garanca's Carmen. The reviewer said everyman in the audience at the Met would have left their mothers to follow her into the mountains by the end of the first act. Funny, and very true.
Having watched the entire opera: the amount of dancing, (and vigorous, passionate, constant movement in general) Ms Garanca does, I'm in AWE!!!! To sing that beautifully and brilliantly, while constantly moving around takes a special talent and discipline. Brava, Signora 👏 💐
You're so right. I bought the entire opera on blu ray, its fantastic.
@@THyperon hope you're enjoying it :)
I think she's fantastic in this role. I've heard people saying that ''she is too elegant to be a Carmen''... In my opinion she totally owned the character, i mean, she has a different culture, a completely different ethnic background and she looks here like a gypsy, love her acting and her amazing voice!!!
totally agreed.
Absolutely agreed
Of course! Besides her beautiful voice, she’s a great actress & a great dancer!
ok, she's good, but i am french and i unterstand nothing except the chorus. If you want the greatest artist search maria callas ua-cam.com/video/Za5V6NQDc2Y/v-deo.html
In order to be sexy, elegance is required. Carmen is a sexy gypsy so, Garanca fits the role perfectly!
Elina the best Carmen of all times. Seductive, provocative, charming, with beautiful voice. She is the Carmen complete and integral
She is the best of this time, and still waiting for the next.
also considering how lucky to find her, looks like a ballet dancer, total package!!!
There are many great carmens, but Elena is definitely the best of our time, she had to do it and she is truly our elegant gypsy
Well.... best I've seen since my FIRST Carmen, Rise Stevens.
No😂
This is just so magnificent. Watching this reminds me of everything I worked so hard to change in my life, everything I succeeded with and everything I failed at. It makes me feel renewed energy to keep working towards my goals, even as they grow distant before me. My passion has never died, never will. Thanks to music and performances like this.
How I admire her!!! She's fantastic.
This scene is so cool! Sensuality, passion, energy... Imagine the slap in the face for the public in Paris in 1830 something when this was created... They were used to see only royal characters in opera and here they see a fiery gypsy femme fatale...
It was written in 1874
@@bunnybird9342 Ah thanks I was not super sure about the date but let's say in the 19th century people were really shocked!
Much earlier opera has non-noble characters, including peasants, though. Don Giovanni and saucy peasant girl Zerlina? It wasn't Bizet's first opera featuring non-noble characters, either. I think it may be somewhat of a myth overall that Carmen was such a shock, based on a rather inaccurate image of nineteenth century stuffiness - certainly people complained, but then, someone always does.
@@ampharos6420 They probably complained more often than one would in our time.
So inaccurate, boy, haven't heard of Verdi's Traviata?
The best Carmen i ever saw in perfomance Elīna Garanča, Brava!!
Wow. This is Bizet, and there's no microphone on Garanca, folks. To bring that much physical energy to a scene like this, and to seamlessly fill the Hall with that voice...I've never seen anything like it. Bravo!
I love love love her voice. So powerful with flawless technique.
Truly the best Carmen! And the whole dance scene is incredible. bravo.
For me this is Carmen,pasion,love,wild pover.Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!
Elina Garanca is by far my favorite Carmen, she brought Carmen's character to life and she "Owned It" hands down Elina Bravo.
What Diana Damrau is for Queen of the Night, is Elīna Garanča for Carmen. Sie IS the role. Fantastic!
THyperon Elina is also the definitive Dalila.
I much preferred Maria Ewing though. She is a fantastic actress.
Sorry but I don't quite understand. The song so can someone try and explain what the women is saying or is there another way of teancelating it English ??
@@eleanorstrange5409 It's a dancing song, she explains how gypsies gather to dance on music, basically :)
@@eleanorstrange5409
The rods sistrums tinkled
With a metallic luster.
And on this strange music
The zingarellas were rising.
Basque drums went their train.
And the crazy guitars
Squeaked under stubborn hands,
Same song, same chorus.
Tra la la la la, Tra la la la la la.
CARMEN, FRASQUITA and MERCEDES
Tra la la la, Tra la la la la.
CARMEN
The rings of copper and silver
Shine on the dark skin;
Orange or red zebra
The stuffs floated in the wind:
The singing dance was getting married
At first indecisive and timid.
More lively then and faster,
It went up, up, up!
Tra la la la la la, Tra la la la la la la la.
CARMEN, FRASQUITA and MERCEDES
Tra la la la, Tra la la la la.
CARMEN
Bohemians with a twist,
Their instruments were raging,
And this dazzling fuss,
Bewitched the zingaras!
Under the rhythm of the song,
Ardent, crazy, feverish,
They indulged, intoxicated,
Take it by the whirlpool!
Tra la la la la, Tra la la la la la.
CARMEN, FRASQUITA and MERCEDES
Tra la la la, Tra la la la la.
.
Stupendous performance, thank you Elina.
I’m obsessed
Simplemente me encanta...perfecta
This entire production is FANTASTIC!
She is amazing, i keep hope to see and hear her in Carmen
One of the most fascinating opera's ever.
Todo es perfecto, la voz, los bailaores, vestuario, todo, todo!
Thats the high standards of the Met.
Maravilhosa 😍😍😍😍😍
This is simply fantastic!
The best Carmen I’ve seen. I was in the live HD broadcast that day and I’m sure all our jaws were dropping from this powerful perfect Carmen…
Fenomenal !!! Me encanta esta Carmen 8)
I love this Carmen and Elina and Roberto are WOW. I also love that as a Latvian she is so modest, not arrogant because there are so many fine opera singers from such a small country. The training is so good. But Elina for me is still the best mezzo in the world.
And she owns the stage. This Met opera was easily the best production I have seen. Epic.
I just read her autobiography. It was deeply personal and beautiful. She talked about growing up in Latvia at her grandparent's farm. When I first watched Elina's interviews I was struck by how authentic and real she was. When I read her book I understood why. I highly recommend it
Magnifique
elle est magnifique
devastatingly good!
Madina Tamazova Interesting choice of adverb!
ElinaG is Carmen....We will just have to live with the fact that AngelaG never did it, except for a highlight or two, and be glad that ElinaG was so perfect...
elina garanca is a great mezzo soprano. she sings with a lot of feeling. wish i could have seen her live. this music is a bit fast but still great
One of the best Mezzo Sopranos today
Maravillosa, puesta totalmente creíble y muy buen actuada!!!
Elīna Garanča got everything of Carmen. I love it.
I love it. I love Carmen and I love Elina 💖💖💖💖
Extraordinar!!!
Amazing powerful performance 😉
Magnifique!
Awesome
Fantástico!
Bravo l'Artiste, belle interprétation et belle chorégraphie
De lujooooooo
MAGNÍFICA !
Triste sort de Bizet, pour qui cet opéra fut un échec, et qui n'a jamais su qu'il deviendrait le plus populaire de tous, ou du moins l'un des plus populaires! Ah, s'il avait pu voir cette production, et cette Carmen, la Carmen parfaite, celle pour qui le rôle semble avoir été fait!
Me encanta lo atrevida que es Elīna Garanča como Carmen
Atrevida sin perder un átomo de su elegancia -- una Carmen perfecta! :)
Suban la ópera completa! :(
La meilleur Carmen, tant pour la voix que pour l'interpretation !
Par contre la chorégraphie fait un peu trop comédie musicale et pas assez espagnol ! Mais bon c'était en Amérique, alors... !
Et la Callas? Oubliée ? Elle était une divine Carmen...
I think this production was choreographed by recent Tony winner Christopher Wheeldon!
+Josh Freilich Yes it was :)
Goodness! I thought the choreography was awful!
Excellent
People keep talking about Habanera and the Toreador song, but for me this is the highlight of Carmen: flamenco meets French opera
SHE'S SO PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :')))))) I need to calm down ...:')
Elina Garanca and Grace Bumbry are my two favorite Carmens
Elina è stata meravigliosa in quest'opera. È chiarissimo che ha imparato la lezione da Callas: è una attrice bravissima, e la sua voce è esattamente quello che si potrebbe desiderare, semplecimente PERFETTA.
Garanca is my diva!
I watched it tonight together with my almost 5-year-old son through Met Opera's free nightly opera streams during the coronavirus pandemic. I am in awe. This is my favorite part, as well as the very end. Thank you Met Opera, words are not enough. I am so grateful.
I can't believe i've lost it!!!
@@rb-tq1dd Met Opera on demand. By the way, that exact entire opera was on youtube, until they took it down (obviously).
Thanks for introducing kiddo to opera. My first was The Magic Flute about that age.
And the time has come, 3 1/2 years later, that Elina Garanca is coming to my city, and I am going with my son to see her at the opera house!
Jedna z moich ulubionych aktów Carmen …
And dancing with pasion ,and vigorous ,gypsy dance 💃 and that music 🎶 the best…
la mas bella carmen de la historia
Wow, she's a dancing queen. She rocks indeed, such a plenty of visual delight.. The only thing is it's just so different from the classical opera i used to see that i feel like i'm watching a musical only with operatic vocal..i don't know maybe i'm conservative.. Truth is that she set herself up and proved herself as a dynamic and dramatic singer in opera world.
J ADORE LA VOIX SUBLIME D ELINA GARANCA SURTOUT QUANT C EST CARMEN DE BIZET BRAVO BRAVO ELINA🎵🎶♩🎙🎤🎹👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💛❣💗❣💟❣💟💕💙💕❣💕❣💕💖🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷
en brune avec sa voix elle est à tomber, je ne l'avait pas reconnue seulement sa voix superbe,
Excelsa!!!!
elle a bien bosse son français
Elle n'en est que plus merveilleuse
Oui ça fait plaisir une artiste étrangère quasiment sans accent. Mais c'est une bosseuse(dressée à la russe !), elle n'est jamais dans l'approximation !
Excellent performance! Please, write conductor's name and orchestra in description of videos like this. They do a lot of significat work, we should know them!
Info is easily available. It's at the MET in NYC.
She is loosely based off of one of her ancestors La Esmeralda Senior. So expy: Esmeralda Senior the streetcast from The Notre Dame of the Streetcast and the Hunchback = Carmencita from Carmencita.
Prettyyy preetyy good. Preeeeetty good.
Maravillosa Elina Garanca
Lindo!!!
this is so iconic
И моя идиотская империя пойдёт за этой юбкой😂❤
Bravo. La classe absolue. Chanter magnifiquement dans des positions que ne renieraient pas une rock star.
I just saw "a" Carmen done by the Seattle Opera, the motorcycles, and Zuniga getting kicked in the balls by Carmen did not come off well. The male chorus phoned in their lines, aw geez, had to come here to get my faith back. Thanks Elina.
I saw this too with unrealistically high expectations, it was terrible, I dubbed it Carmen's House of pain
Besides, she deserves to be an Official Romantic Walt Disney Princess Senior of the Walt Disney Animation Features Canon Senior in two years around July 24, 2019 as all 4D cgi animated.
She is the best CARMEN EVER
La Gran Elīna Garanča, nos regala su maravillosa version del Pasodoble de "Carmen" de George Bizet o la mas Española de las Operas escrita por un Frances! Hombre que no lo he dicho yo! Ja!
O, la mas Espagnola des obras! 🇪🇦
Fue una obra maestra, porque fue escrita de un Frances 🇫🇷. O, porque era un genio. No lo se...
😉
Habrá una versión española?
scenary presence!
美しい！まるでカルメン本人
ノートルダムの鐘のエスメラルダ役も似合いそう！
It's a tough choice deciding which Carmen I like better; Domashenko's or Garanca's. Both are so good!
She sings so well as usual, and looks really good as a brunette
LA MEJOR DE TODAS ELINA GARANCA
She’s the best Carmen that I’ve ever seen.
Geweldig…….🦋
That opening sequence in darkness is kinda similar to Rivierdance D: great opera, hoping to see it live someday.
So this part is opening?
+fans ihsahn No, this is the opening of Act 2
SHE IS SO FINE, FANTASTIC.
Imo elina ia the perfect one to play Carmen
Bravo et très beau travail!
Helt underbart!!!
Carmen = Rosa Ponselle e la compagnie ...
Me too.
marooooo'! CHE MERAVIGLIA! finalmente una coreografia e una carmen che non deludono! fantastici!
Can you imagine a better singer???
Better Carmen
Or better actress for this
♥️
Apoteotica
I've seen a lot of Carmen interpretations (haven't we all?) but I have no problem saying that hers is my personal favorite
The thing that makes Elīna Garanča so amazing as Carmen is not just that she played the role, she owned it. She really made the character so believable with her seductive charm and her amazing voice. Elina IS Carmen! Hands down!
I'm just a curb your enthusiasm guy. That's what brought me to this video.
Согласна, Анатолий Калмыков. Прямо "зараза" какая-то: с тех пор мало кого еще могу в этой партии слушать. Ждем возвращения после рождения второй дочери.
gladisveyt ааа :)
Да что-то от наркоты у Гаранчи есть.,пробывал слушать ее арии в другом исполнении, но не то.
Je trope mais c’est ！
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😍😍😍😍🌹🌹🌹🌹
Y treisen stop eating trio
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