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From:  thomas mark montgomery <thomas8@t...>
Date:  Sat Sep 2, 2000  1:29 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] French Carmen?



Check out the great Regine Crespin and Beatrice Uria-Monzon has a video
out there somewhere.

On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Jennifer Fretwell wrote:

> I have recently started working on the "Habanera" from Carmen. I usually try
> to learn the diction of a piece that is not English by listening to a native
> speaker of the language singing the role. My voice teacher and I put our
> heads together and could not come up with any women who have recorded Carmen
> AND are native French speakers. The only singers we came up with are from
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> United States or elsewhere (Denyce Graves, Maria Callas, Tatiana Troyanos,
> Marilyn Horne, etc.). Can anyone think of a native French speaker who at
> least recorded the Habanera (they need not have recorded the entire role)?
>
> Jennifer Fretwell
> Pittsburgh, PA
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