Anna Caterina Antonacci (Carmen), Andrew Richards (Don Jose), Anne-Catherine Gillet (Micaela), Nicolas Cavallier (Escamillo), Francis Dudziak (Le Dancaire), Vincent Ordonneau (Le Remendado), Matthew Brook (Zuniga), Riccardo Novaro (Morales) & Annie Gill (Mercedes)

The Monteverdi Choir, Maitrise Des Hauts De Seine & Orchestre Revolutionnaire Et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

The Guardian 9th December 2010 ****

“Gardiner conducts Richard Langham Smith's new critical edition with fiery precision, while the period sound of the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique adds rawness to the prevailing sensuality...Antonacci and Andrew Richards generate such a terrific erotic charge as Carmen and José that you understand why its first audiences found it obscene.”