Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: This is defintely not the Carmen to own.

This offering got off on the wrong foot with me with the gratuitous begining scene of an innocent bull being tortured in a bull ring.Opera is a total experience but rests firmly on the conductor and the singers, those requirements are not met here,the visual effects of the on location shoot do not compensate for the mediocre totality. If you are going to own one visual Carmen, let it be the 1982 Baltsa/Carreras, if you are primarily interested in the vocal performance then you must own 1964 Callas/Gedda (finest Don Jose ever)on CD, or the De Los Angeles/Gedda (forgotten performance date)Domingo gives a far more vocally convincing performance in the Covent Garden production w/ Denyce Graves, who not only presents herself well but can also sing.