CARMEN:Bizet
Original Air Date: 03/21/1987
Levine; Baltsa, Carreras, Cotrubas, Ramey
SID.18520213
Baltsa has two runs at the Met, her debut year in 1980 as Octavian in Rosenkavalier, and 7 years later a run in Carmen including a telecast (long available on DVD, except Mitchell for Cotrubas). She then returns for a gala concert with Domingo in 1988 and she is gone. Database is not marked as final appearance, but I wouldn’t bet on her returning. This performance is available on MOoD (formerly Met Player), but the most distinctive performance is Ramey. This is Carreras final broadcast and only two appearances away from the end of his Met career due to illness (he does one more Carmen with Isola Jones, and then comes back for an Act 4 of Carmen with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson on a gala evening (not broadcast) with Domingo and Pavarotti as well 13 years after finishing the Carmen run.
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