[1] Julia Migenes stars in the title role, Plácido Domingo as Don José, Ruggero Raimondi as Escamillo, and Faith Esham as Micaela.

[2] He worked with his longtime collaborator, the cinematographer Pasqualino De Santis, and with Enrico Job supervising the sets and costumes.

[4] He believed that Bizet, who never visited Spain, was guided by these engravings, and shot scenes in some of the exact places that Doré drew.

But after he has deserted the Army and lost the respectability that meant everything to him, he thinks she owes him lifelong devotion.

[5]In late 2011 the film was released on both a regular, anamorphically enhanced Region 1 DVD, and on Blu-ray.