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Then she meets a matador Escamillo, who pursues her, and fights Jose for her. Carmen escapes to the Sierra, where she meets with her bandit friends, and is later joined by Jose.

In the tragic tale, based on French writer Prosper Merimee's novella, published in 1845, Carmen, the beautiful, passionate and fiercely independent gypsy, seduces a soldier called Don José, leading to his arrest and imprisonment. The tale of the Spanish gypsy girl from sensuous southern Spain has delighted audiences from Sydney to Shanghai since 1875.Ī number of films have also been made, notably Carlos Saura's 1983 version, which blends a real-life story with the opera's plot and features major flamenco names such as Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos and Paco de Lucia Vicente Aranda's 2003 version starring Paz Vega as well as the American musical Carmen Jones (1954). Carmen the opera and filmĬarmen is one of the world's beloved operas, with its vivid colours, dramatic characters, romantic setting, and instantly recognisable arias like "Habanera" and "Toreador". In the classic tale of passion and betrayal, the gypsy woman of Bizet's opera is a cigarette girl who works at Seville's enormous tobacco factory, which still exists and is open to the public the cigarette girls of Seville are depicted in Gonzalo Bilbao's famous painting Las Cigarreras. The dusky, sensual character of Carmen forms a key part of the mythical, dramatic image of Seville which attracts hundreds of thousands visitors to the city every year.