Between 1848 to 1857, he won numerous awards for his performance there. Georges showed great skill from a very young age and was consequently accepted at Paris Conservatoire at the age of nine. The musical affinity ran in the family with both his parents associated with art. Carmen's Composer, Georges Bizetīorn in 1838 in Paris, as Alexandre Cesar Leopold and then baptized as Georges Bizet. Driven insane with jealousy and rage, Don Jose murders Carmen then and there. This leads to an ultimate altercation between the two former lovers where Carmen declares that she doesn’t love the Don anymore. In the final opera act, Carmen and Escamillo arrive at the bullfighting arena where the former is warned by her friends that Don Jose is plotting to kill her. Carmen hears Escamillo singing and walks in that direction. By the end of the Act, Micaela persuades Don Jose to return with her as his mother is ill. In the meantime, Escamillo finds the den where he and Don Jose fought. In the Third Act, the setting is the smuggler’s den and Carmen now realizes her aversion to Don Jose.

She awaits Don’s release from prison, upon which she tries to persuade him to live the life of a gypsy, Don Jose eventually agrees. The latter sings the famous Toreador song to enamor Carmen to no avail. We see that Carmen is proposed to by Zuniga and the bullfighter Escamillo, yet she rejects them both. The Second Act is all about Carmen’s feelings for Don Jose. By the end of the play, we see Don Jose breaks the law by aiding Carmen’s escape from the law and is sent to prison. We are also introduced to Micaela whom the Don assures of his fidelity. She replies with the famous song 'L'amour est un oiseau rebella' or Habanera. The Act opens in Seville, Spain where a young gypsy girl, Carmen, is being questioned by soldiers on when she would accept their romantic proposals. The opera concludes with the death of the namesake by Don Jose, thus marking the tragic end for the primary character. He is driven by jealousy of men around her which becomes unbearable for him upon Carmen’s eventual preference for the bullfighter Escamillo. Out of love for her, he makes the decision to join the smugglers connected to her. The events take place in Seville where the Don abandons his lover Micaela for Carmen, a gypsy girl. The story is set around the year 1830 by Georges Bizet and deals with the love and subsequent jealousy of Don Jose.

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