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Carmen and José enter with the smugglers and their booty ("Écoute, écoute, compagnon"); Carmen has now become bored with José and tells him scornfully that he should go back to his mother. Frasquita and Mercédès amuse themselves by reading their fortunes from the cards; Carmen joins them and finds that the cards are foretelling her death, and José's.
Carmen, a searing depiction of a woman who craves love, but creates obsession and jealousy, is one of the most popular operas ever written. Bizet ‘s Spanish-inflected score is bursting with passionate melodies and famous numbers such as Carmen’s seductive ‘Habanera’ and Escamillo’s ‘Toreador song’. Keep reading for everything you ...
Zuniga sends José to remove Carmen, but she refuses to answer Zuniga’s questions, and José is ordered to lock her up. Left alone with him, she entices José with suggestions of a rendezvous at a private party outside of town. Mesmerized, he agrees to let her get away. As he brings her to the lockup, José lets Carmen escape, and he is arrested.
When Escamillo, the toreador who took a fancy to Carmen while José was in prison, comes looking for her, she seizes the opportunity to get away from José. All ends in tragedy when José confronts Carmen in a jealous rage and forces her to choose. Set in the heat of Seville, Carmen is an enduring story of passion, lust, jealousy, obsession ...
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A busy town square in Sevilla, Spain – 1820. A guardhouse sits on one side of the town square and the entrance to a tobacco factory borders the other. Soldiers pass the time people watching and gambling at cards and dice. Micaëla, a guileless country girl, approaches the guardhouse, looking for Don José. His company of dragoons has not yet arrived,...
At Lillas Pasitas’ Inn, two months later. Carmen and her companions Frasquita and Mercédès dance and play music to entertain officersat the inn, including Zuniga, who has come to woo Carmen. His attentions annoy Carmen, but Zuniga attributes her displeasure to Don José’s arrest for helping her escape. Zuniga tries to cheer her with the news that Do...
A remote hideout in the mountains above the valley where Don José’s home village lies. The smugglers and their band hide out in the mountains. Don José looks down from the mountains towards his home village, mourning his mother’s misplaced faith in him. Carmen tells Don José he should return home to his mother, the thieving life is not for him. Her...
A square in Seville, at the entrance of the amphitheater. The square is filled with performers and peddlers, catering to the crowd arriving for the bullfight. The parade of Toréadors makes its way into the amphitheater. As the favored champion, Escamillo appears at the climax of the parade. Seeing Carmen, he declares his love for her, and she retur...
Sep 9, 2021 · Our Carmen is set in a remote frontier town, where soldiers spend their time drinking at Lillas Pastia ’s nightclub. All are obsessed with Carmen, the star performer, except for repressed corporal Don José. He has received a letter from his mother via Micaëla, a woman from his hometown, urging that he return home and marry Micaëla.
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José picks up the flower and hides it when Micaëla returns. She brings a letter from José’s mother, who lives in a village in the countryside. As he begins to read the letter, Micaëla leaves. José is about to throw away the flower when a fight erupts inside the factory between Carmen and another girl. Zuniga sends José to retrieve Carmen.
