The protagonist of this o
The protagonist of this opera teases an admirer in an aria in which she tells him of her plans to visit her friend Lillas Pastia and drink manzanilla. Before getting into a knife fight with another woman, she throws that lead tenor a flower, who sings about it in his "La fleur que tu m'avais jetÃ©e," or his Flower Song. The two best-known arias from this opera, "Votre toast" and "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle," are commonly known as the Toreador Song and the Habanera. The title character spurns Don JosÃ© for the bullfighter Escamillo in, for 10 points, what opera about a Spanish gypsy girl by Georges Bizet?
The protagonist of this opera teases an admirer in an aria in which she tells him of her plans to visit her friend Lillas Pastia and drink manzanilla.
Carmen