Bizet: Carmen, Ludwig/ Pilou/ King/ Waechter/ Vienna Staatsoper Orch and Chorus/ MaazelTaped live at the Vienna Staatsoper in 1966, this famous performance is receiving a commercial release to mark the 80th birthday of Christa Ludwig, one of the great mezzos of the 20th century. There are too many peripheral drawbacks to make it a first-choice recommendation for the work itself: grand-manner conducting from Lorin Maazel; an irritatingly girlie girl·ie also girl·y adj. Informal Featuring minimally clothed or naked women typically in pornographic contexts: girlie magazines. Micaela from Jeanette Pilou; and an Escamillo (Eberhard Waechter) who is both past his best and hopelessly miscast mis·cast tr.v. mis·cast, mis·cast·ing, mis·casts 1. To cast in an unsuitable role. 2. To cast (a role, play, or film) inappropriately. . Ludwig, however, is mesmerising as Carmen Carmen throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Faithlessness Carmen the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. , and years ahead of her time in presenting Bizet's heroine as a self-assured, assertive woman, determined to maintain her sexual integrity in a predatory male world. Her Don José is James King. His singing is big, beefy beefy, beefyness 1. in dog conformation, used to describe overdevelopment of musculature in the hindquarters. 2. in cattle, used to designate the desirable physical conformation of a beef animal, but an undesirable character in dairy cattle. and sometimes raw - but the man's allure is there in spades. Flawed, yet absolutely unforgettable. 
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