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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
- There are a total of 25 general entries.
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Carmen
| When was "Carmen" first performed? | Carmen
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1875. Carmen debuted in Paris' Opera Comique March third, 1875.
| What happens to Carmen in the end? | Carmen
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Don Jose kills her. Don Jose stabs her outside the bullfighting arena.
| Who does Carmen leave Don Jose for? | Carmen
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Escamillo. She leaves him for Escamillo - the matador.
| What does Carmen do for a living? | Carmen
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Works in a cigarette factory. She works in a cigarette factory where only women work. All the men stand outside to look at them when they come out from the factory.
| From whom does Micaela bring a letter to Don Jose? | Carmen
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His mother. It is a letter from his poor sick mother.
| Who sings the habanera ('L'amour est un oiseau rebelle')? | Carmen
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Carmen. A lovely song, maybe the most well known. Carmen sings it when she and the other girls come out of the factory.
| What people does Carmen belong to? | Carmen
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Gypsies. She is a gypsy woman.
| In what country does Carmen take place? | Carmen
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| Who wrote the story 'Carmen' is based on? | Carmen
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| Who wrote the wonderful opera 'Carmen'? | Carmen
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Bizet. It was French composer Georges Bizet.
Carmen Jones. Adapted by Oscar Hammerstein II in the WWII era, Otto Preminger brought it to the screen in the 50's...and had an affair with its leading lady Dorothy Dandridge (Halle Berry played her on HBO). Harry Belafonte co-starred.
Rita Hayworth. Best known for playing Gilda, Hayworth was really Margarita Cansino, of Spanish descent and a dancer since childhood, so Carmen was tailor-made for her.
four. They are 'The Pearl Fishers', 'Don Rodrigue', 'Djamileh' and 'The Fair Maid of Perth', none being performed as much as 'Carmen'.
outside the bullring. Enraged that Carmen has dumped him for bullfighter Escamillo, Don Jose stabs the gypsy to death while Escamillo is cheered in triumph.
Habanera. Who can forget Carmen singing that Habanera?
1875. 'Carmen' failed dismally because audiences were unaccustomed to its {realism;} today it is a mainstay of the operatic repertoire.
Meilhac and Halevy . Opera composers rarely wrote their own librettos.
Zuniga. When Carmen seemed to show interest in Jose's superior, the jealous soldier fought the Captain, but her gypsy comrades overpowered Zuniga and drove him off with pistols.
Michaela. The rather boringly virtuous Michaela stands no chance against the gypsy siren.
fighting with another girl. Carmen got into an exchange of insults with a co-worker and slashed the latter's cheeks with a knife.
cigarette factory. Remember the first act song of the cigarette girls as they smoked and seduced the men on their break? Heady stuff for those times!
Navarre. Jose was a soldier born in Navarre, a northern province of Spain.
Spanish. She's a Spanish Gypsy, actually. The Gypsies were thought to have come from Egypt, hence the name, but they originated from India. They have settled in practically all lands.
1845. Merimee wrote almost all historical romances.
Prosper Merimee. Today Merimee is barely remembered, and if so, only through his connection with the opera.
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