
30/10/1931
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.

Marguerite Namara
as Carmen

Thomas F. Burke
as Don Jose

Lance Fairfax
as Escamillo

Lester Matthews
as Zuniga

Mary Clare
as Factory Girl

Lewin Mannering
as Innkeeper

Hay Petrie
as Remenado

Dennis Wyndham
as Doncairo
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