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Salzburger Festspiele 2012 - Carmen
Magdalena Kožená as Carmen and Jonas Kaufmann as Don José at the Salzburg Festival 2012

Carmen is a French opera written and first performed on 3 March 1875 by Georges Bizet. The story is set in Spain. It is based on the story of the same title by Prosper Mérimée.

Roles

The story

Carmen is about a gypsy girl who works in a factory. She falls in love with a soldier called Don José, who loves her. However, he is already engaged to somebody else. Later, he leaves the girl he was engaged to and the army for Carmen. Running away together, they are happy for a while until Carmen decides she loves a bullfighter called Escamillo. She leaves Don José. One day when Carmen is watching a bullfight, Don José waits for her and then tries to make her come back. She refuses, so he stabs her to death. Horrified at what he has done, he goes to jail.

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Images for kids

  • Merimee sketch 001

    Prosper Mérimée, whose novella Carmen of 1845 inspired the opera

  • Atelier Nadar - Galli-Marié in Bizet's Carmen

    Galli-Marié as Carmen

  • Carmen 1875 Act1 lithograph Lamy NGO1p736

    Lithograph of act 1 in the premiere performance, by Pierre-Auguste Lamy, 1875

  • Choreographed Opera Performance (Carmen by Bizet)

    Act 4: A square in Seville

  • Meilhac-et-halevy

    Ludovic Halévy and Henri Meilhac, who together wrote the libretto for Carmen

  • Georges bizet

    Georges Bizet, photograph by Étienne Carjat, 1875

  • Carmen - illustration by Luc for Journal Amusant 1875

    Cartoon from Journal amusant, 1875

  • VariousCarmens

    Many distinguished artistes sang the role of Carmen in early productions of the opera.

  • Carmen at the Met1915

    Carmen at the New York Met in 1915; a publicity photograph that shows the three principal stars: Geraldine Farrar, Enrico Caruso and Pasquale Amato

  • Habanera Carmen

    Carmen sings the "Habanera", act 1

  • Mlle Victoria Lepanto in Carmen (Pathe 1909)

    Vittoria Lepanto [it] in Carmen (1909)

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Carmen (ópera) para niños

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