Escamillo

By the time he met Lily in Some Buried Caesar he'd become pretty suave anyone meriting the pet name Escamillo from a woman as chi-chi as Lily HAD to be suave!

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Rodney, a massively tall and very striking baritone, is perfection as Husky Miller (the character formerly known as Escamillo) and Andrew, a high, romantic tenor brimful with charm, plays Joe (Don J) as a repressed mama's boy whose emotions are wrenched out of him in fits of startling violence.

Meet the Clarke brothers Jessica 2007

Rodney, a massively tall and very striking baritone, is perfection as Husky Miller (the character formerly known as Escamillo) and Andrew, a high, romantic tenor brimful with charm, plays Joe (Don J) as a repressed mama's boy whose emotions are wrenched out of him in fits of startling violence.

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Christine Rice makes a spunky, sexy gypsy; Maija Kovalevska is beautiful as Micaela, tortured by her love for the largely oblivious Jose; Hymel who is coming to Baltimore as Faust in 2012 sings solidly and is both handsome and slightly nerdy, as Jose should be; and Aris Argiris, a Greek baritone, made his Royal Opera House debut as a hunky and well-sung Escamillo.

'Carmen in 3D': One dimension short 2011

Using the spoken dialogue of the original stage production, it is shot entirely on Andalucian locations with a magnificent central trio: the alluring, powerfully confident Julia Migenes, a sort of dark-haired Gypsy Streisand, as Carmen; Plácido Domingo, a painfully vulnerable (if perhaps slightly too old) Don José; and Ruggero Raimondo (Losey's Don Giovanni) as a wiry, proud Escamillo, who has the pained eyes of a man long used to facing death in the afternoon.

Carmen 2011

Jessica Rivera was Micaëla, and Mariusz Kwiecien sang Escamillo in what seems like luxury casting for this one-off concert performance.

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Raymond Aceto was a particularly humorless Escamillo.

Seville Unions 2008

Raymond Aceto was a particularly humorless Escamillo.

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The rest of the cast also seems below its appreciable best, with Marina Domashenko a robustly delivered but anonymous Carmen, Eva Mei a breathy and unevenly sung Micaela and Bryn Terfel tending to bellow his way through the role of Escamillo.

CD review: Decca's 'Carmen,' featuring Andrea Bocelli 2010

Her Don José, Yonghoon Lee, dispatched his smoky tenor with a soft ending to The Flower Song, as the composer wanted, while Kyle Ketelsen, as Escamillo, actually hit his treacherous low notes dead on in the repeat.

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