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Emily Soldene as Carmen in the death scene from an 1880 production of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, based on Prosper Mérimée's book of the same name.
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Emily Soldene as Carmen in the death scene from an 1880 production of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, based on Prosper Mérimée's book of the same name.
Emily Soldene as Carmen in the death scene from an 1880 production of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, based on Prosper Mérimée's book of the same name.

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Carmen, novella about Spanish Gypsy life by French author Prosper Mérimée, first published serially in 1845. Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen is based on the story. As a hot-blooded young corporal in the Spanish cavalry stationed near Seville, Don José is ordered to arrest Carmen, a young, flirtatious Gypsy woman, for assaulting a coworker. Greatly charmed by her, José allows her to escape. He deserts the army, kills two men on Carmen’s account, and becomes a robber and smuggler. He is insanely jealous of Carmen, who is unfaithful to him. When she refuses to change her ways, he kills her and ...(100 of 105 words)

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