Live recording from Oper Zurich, 2008, DVD release 2014. Jonas Kaufmann, 'the Prince of Tenors', appears with international star Vesselina Kasarova in Zürich Opera's starkly palpable staging of Bizet's ever-popular Carmen. The production sees Don José (Kaufmann) abandon his teenage attitudes in pursuit of Kasarova's free and independent Carmen - realising too late that his self-control has vanished, along with his youth.
Jonas Kaufmann
as Don José
Vesselina Kasarova
as Carmen
Michele Pertusi
as Escamillo
Isabel Rey
as Micaëla
Morgan Moody
as Zuniga
Krešimir Stražanac
as Moralés
Michele Pertusi
as
Sen Guo
as
Judith Schmid
as
Gabriel Bermúdez
as
Javier Camarena
as
Franz Welser-Möst
as Conductor
