[Met Performance] CID:326320
New Production
Carmen {840} Metropolitan Opera House: 10/31/1996.


Metropolitan Opera House
October 31, 1996
Benefit sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera Guild
New Production


CARMEN {840}
Bizet-Meilhac/L. Halévy

Carmen..................Waltraud Meier
Don José................Plácido Domingo
Micaela.................Angela Gheorghiu
Escamillo...............Sergei Leiferkus
Frasquita...............Mary Dunleavy
Mercédès................Kristine Jepson
Remendado...............Tony Stevenson
Dancaïre................Kim Josephson
Zuniga..................Jeffrey Wells
Moralès.................Christopher Schaldenbrand

Conductor...............James Levine

Production..............Franco Zeffirelli
Set designer............Franco Zeffirelli
Costume designer........Anna Anni
Lighting designer.......Duane Schuler
Choreographer...........Maria Benitez

Carmen received twenty-three performances this season.

Production gift of The Annenberg Foundation


Photograph of Angela Gheorghiu as Micaela by Winnie Klotz/Metropolitan Opera.


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