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Don José arrives furious and full of jealousy.

Carmen watches Escamillo in a bullfight.

Meanwhile, Carmen falls for a handsome bullfighter named Escamillo, leaving José behind.

Micaëla convinces José to leave when she says his mother is dying.

Escamillo and José meet and start to fight but are interrupted.

Micaëla searches for Don José to rescue him from Carmen.

Don José is released from prison and abandons the army to find Carmen because he has fallen in love with her.

Carmen and her smuggler friends discuss plans. Later, Escamillo (es-kah-mi-YO), the bullfighter, arrives and introduces himself.

Carmen seduces Don José and convinces him to untie her.Micaëla returns and tells José his mother wants him to return home. Summer nights in Perth set the stage for searing passions in Spain, as Carmen takes over the. Good news Carmens coming back Having been postponed from our 2022 Festival, we, with West Australian Opera, are proud to be bringing Bizets operatic masterpiece Carmen to the WACA Ground. Carmen gets into a fight with a woman at work and is imprisoned. Fri 24 Sat 25 Feb at WACA Ground, from 15 - 79.The beautiful and feisty Carmen and seduces the men while singing of the unpredictableness of love. In the town square, Micaëla (mee-kah-eh-LA) searches for the soldier Don José (don zho-ZAY).Carmen’s success helped turn its Italian publishers, the Casa Sonzogno, into major power brokers in Italian opera, and the opera became a key part of their corporate brand. The Italian version of Carmen inspired dialogues about the nature of realism’in the Italian press, and affected the realist composers of the giovane scuola (Puccini, Mascagni et al.). At the same time, French singers, such as Célestine Galli-Marié, regularly performed the role in Italy, so the Italian version had many points of contact with the French performing tradition. These changes are more striking since the first Italian version of Carmen appears to have been made by the French, while the opera’s real popularity in Italy corresponds to the appearance of a second, Italianised version.

The opera was significantly modified to suit Italian tastes, stripped of its key generic markers, translated and reinterpreted by Italian singers. Bizet’s Carmen had a major impact on Italian opera, yet its success was not easy or certain.