Two men in this opera try to recruit three women for a shady business job in the Act II quintet "Nous avons en tête une affaire.
Two men in this opera try to recruit three women for a shady business job in the Act II quintet "Nous avons en tête une affaire." A famous aria from this opera has a downwards moving melody that begins with D and C-sharp pickup eighths followed by C triplets. Legend has it that the creator of this opera's main role, Célestine Galli-Marie, fainted during a performance of it on the night that its composer died. The protagonist of this opera sings of the inevitability of fate in "En vain pour éviter" after drawing a fortune-telling card that predicts her own death. That title character had earlier compared love to a rebellious bird in her "Habanera." For 10 points, Don José vies with the toreador Escamillo for the hand of the title gypsy, in what opera by Georges Bizet?
Two men in this opera try to recruit three women for a shady business job in the Act II quintet "Nous avons en tête une affaire.
Carmen