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Missing Nadia Krasteva and Julia Migenes....

Elina Garanca

Anita all the way! She was born to play Carmen!

Victòria dels Àngels. Inigualable. Es la Carmen de referència. Una veu preciosa, una dicció perfecta que expressa "l'amour" i la única que sona com un ocell rebel (un oiseau rebelle). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7lMyKTcvKvA.htmlsi=HXMjgD2PaM6vcsoe 18:27

While not the most attractive, Maria Ewing is a veritable Carmen. She exudes animal confidence with the men, that most of the other Carmen wannabes lack.

Maria Ewing performs it in pure French. She acts just as a simple gypsy girl. Her emotions, the manner of singing and speaking are the most natural. I easily empathize with her from the first sound. Thus I count she's the best.

Agnes wins this. She has good vocal and physical acting, and good technique.

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Agnes Baltsa!

2. Maria Ewing is the best Carmen

Giulietta Simionato and Maria Callas. In this video Agnes Baltsa

Is Von Otter just whispering, or that is what she calls singing? 🤦‍♂️

Agnes Baltsa, and with Jose Carreras as Don Jose, a heartbreaking performance!

Agnes Baltsa...the best...❤️💖

Agnes Baltsa is even better as Carmen herself ! ;-)

Elena Obratsova, Maria Ewing for the sexy chest voice. Agnes Baltsa my favourite Carmen all up, for the playfulness and razor blade low register.

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Baltsa, Elena, Ewing, Meier, schneider... well most of them do it great

My humble opinion: the best singer is Agnes Baltsa. Others have other qualities in addition to good singing (acting, humor, looks) that make them very nice to watch, such as Anna Caterina Antonacci, Maria Ewing, Anne Sofie von Otter, Elina Garanca.

Elina for ever

Anna Caterina Antonacci! Splendido soprano Falcon, sicura, elegante nella gestualità, sensuale senza eccessi, precisa nella dizione della lingua francese. In una parola: perfetta!

Ana caterina excelente

maria ewing period

Elina Garanča veličanstvena(magnificent)

anna caterina for sure

No contemporary artist of the past 60 or more years (or forseeable future) will ever match Agnes Baltsa in this.

I never liked this song until I heard Baltsa

The only singer that had any core in her singing was Agnes Baltsa!

No one. The best Hbanera’s are made by Maria Callas and by Angela Gheorghiu

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Elina. Garanca

C'est un jeu idiot, mais nous aimons tous cela ! Sans l'image, Elina Garança me paraît surclasser nettement les autres en matière de technique vocale et le timbre de la vois est évidemment très beau. Puisqu'il s'agit de représentation sur scène, il faut faire un compromis entre la voix, la présence scénique, le caractère sexy et provocant lié au rôle et la crédibilité de la chanteuse dans le rôle, en essayant de corriger les différences de qualité des prises de son (je le disais, c'est bien un jeu idiot !). A ce jeu, j'ai une petite préférence pour Anna Caterina Antonacci. Parmi les absentes, j'ai bien aimé Julia Miguenes pour son engagement total dans le rôle et Marilyn Horne (au disque) pour sa voix particulière.

Loved Agnes Baltsa here (she is also my favorite recorded Rosina). However, Leontyne Price is my favorite recorded Carmen.

0:08 Elena Obraztsova 2:05 Maria Ewing 4:11 Anita Rachvelishvili 6:38 Anne Sofie von Otter 8:52 Waltraud Meier 10:54 Rinat Shaham 13:14 Agnes Baltsa 15:32 Oksana Volkova 17:46 Rita-Lucia Schneider 19:58 Anna Caterina Antonacci 22:02 Elina Garanca 24:20 Nancy Fabiola Herrera

Callas Is the perfect Habanera

Elina Caranca y Agnes Balza

Elina, the best!

Great video,i love all

Anna Caterina Antonacci is my favourite😍😍😍 Others aren't like she. But, you have forgotten Manjola Nallbani, the albanian singer!!

Гаранча непревзойденная! Шнайдер тоже хороша.

Todas muy buenas, pero Elina Garanca ES Carmen.

Antonacci love it every time I watch it

Grace Bumbry was the best carmen ever! No one can top her metallic voice ❤

Wonderful thank u utube Be Smith

Elina Garanca e Anna Caterina Antonacci , difícil, todas são divas arrasadoras

Magnifiques

Люблю А.Бальтца в Сельской чести.Лучшая Кармен Антоначчи и Гаранча,на мой взгляд

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Without doubt, in terms of singing, expression & acting my top 3 by far are 1 - Agnes Baltsa, 2 - Elena Garanca (very close sesond) and 3 - Ana Caterina Antonacci (although I find her voice a bit too bright for Carmen). My favourite Carmen - who, alas, never sang the part on stage - is Maria Callas!