Gipsy Blood
1931
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In 1931 Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimée’s classic story of passion and fatal jealousy Carmen. With a score based on Bizet’s opera Gipsy Blood features celebrated American soprano Marguerite Namara as the capricious gypsy girl from the cigarette factory; her co-performers include Thomas Burke as Carmen’s tormented lover Don José and New Zealand-born baritone Lance Fairfax as his rival the toreador Escamillo.
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