Jose stabs her to death with a dagger, and he is then dumbfounded by his actions. In rejection to his persistence, Carmen throws away the ring that Jose once gave her. He demands she leave with him, but she refuses to. Carmen remains at the square, then, Jose appears. The following month, at the square in front of the bullfight arena, Escamillo who is Carmen’s lover, is welcomed by spectators. She informs him that his mother is seriously ill.
Then, Jose’s childhood friend, Micaela, visits him. Carmen is already in love another man, Escamillo who is a bullfighter. He can’t help himself to join the smugglers with her.Ĭarmen’s group members are smugglers. Carmen requires Jose not to report for roll call, but to stay with her. With that flower in his hand, He tells her his feelings. However, Carmen seduces the guard, Jose, and runs away.Ī month later, Jose who was imprisoned for letting Carmen slip away, has just been released, and he goes to meet her at a tavern. The girls who went back to the cigarette factory, cause a quarrel. Carmen provocatively throws a flower to him, and leaves. But, only a soldier of the guard, Don Jose isn’t interested in her. She sings ‘Habanera’ and, she fascinates the young men there. Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy (in French),Īround 1820, in Seville, Spain, the most provocative gypsy, Carmen, is of all the girls at a place near a cigarette factory. Micaela enters in search of José, bearing the news that his mother is dying.Summary of “Carmen” in 3 Minutes - Opera Synopsis The cards say Frasquita and Mercèdés will lead lives of luck and prosperity, but Carmen has drawn the Ace of Spades, signifying death. He is ordered to be on guard while Carmen and her girlfriends read each other’s fortunes. Quarrels erupt between him and Carmen she is tired of him and suggests that he return to his mother. Life in the mountains in the gypsy smugglers’ hideout has disenchanted José.
Now discredited as a soldier, his only option is to join the smugglers. Meanwhile Zuniga returns to pursue Carmen and a struggle ensues with José, who is wildly jealous. Then Carmen taunts him, urging him to desert the army and join the vagabonds in the mountains. To prove his love, he shows her the flower he has treasured while serving her prison term. When Don José arrives, Carmen dances for him until a bugle call summons him to return to the troops. When he leaves, the smugglers discuss a future raid they have planned Carmen’s friends are ready to help but she will not participate because she is in love. She and her friends Frasquita and Mercèdés have been partying in a tavern owned by Lillas Pastia when the renowned bullfighter Escamillo swaggers in, full of braggadocio and amorous innuendos directed at Carmen she denies him, asserting her love for Don José.
Carmen learns from Zuniga that José, who has been in prison, has just been released.
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