Prosper Mérimée

Set in southern Spain, Don José is a naïve soldier seduced by the wiles of fiery gypsy Carmen. José abandons his childhood sweetheart and deserts from his military duties, yet loses Carmen's love to a glamorous torero.

Short film honoring Sergey Parajanov's Carmen puppets.

Carmen: Impetuous Carmen seduces Don José in order to convince him to let her out of jail. Once outside, she thinks she’s finally free before realizing that she’s in fact prisoner of a love triangle: she wants to be with the famous Torero Escamillo, but she can’t make Don José go away. Petruska: At Saint-Petersburg’s carnival, three puppets are playing the same role over and over: the unhappy lover Petrushka, the coquette and a Moor. Fed up with this endless part that never goes well for him, Petrushka attacks his rival and flees from the puppets theater. Carmen Suite, staged by Alberto Alonso, is a one act ballet about a passionate, free-spirited woman caught in a love triangle. Stanislavsky’s Petrushka, choreographed by Edward Clug, encapsulates the story of a puppet that came to life, burdened by the human emotions of love, jealousy, and rage. Both stories envelop the characters which refuse to abide by the rules, to whom even the thought of submission is repulsive.

Mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine reprises her remarkable portrayal of opera’s ultimate seductress, a triumph in her 2017 debut performances, with impassioned tenors Yonghoon Lee and Roberto Alagna as her lover, Don José. Omer Meir Wellber and Louis Langrée share conducting duties for Sir Richard Eyre’s powerful production, a Met favorite since its 2009 premiere.

With a devilish sway of the hips and a hint of Andalusian flair, Carmen, the beautiful cigar-maker sets her sights on a soldier: Don José. Fate will do the rest. Composed to a libretto by Meilhac and Halévy based on Prosper Mérimée’s novella, the opera exploded the boundaries between tragedy and comedy with a modernity that caused a scandal at the time. Can we kill the one we love with love? The fiery beauty of Bizet’s music, where one unforgettable aria follows another, has worked year in, year out to make it the world’s most performed opera.

Live performance from Chorégies d'Orange, 11 July 2015.

Live performance from Taormina Opera Festival, July 15, 2015.

Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy, the woman who lives by her own rules. Aleksandrs Antonenko is Don José, the soldier who falls under her spell, and Ildar Abdrazakov plays Escamillo, the swaggering bullfighter who takes Carmen away from Don José—an action that seals Carmen’s tragic fate. Anita Hartig is Micaëla, and Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Richard Eyre’s hit production, set in 1930s Spain.

Live recording from Oper Zurich, 2008, DVD release 2014. Jonas Kaufmann, 'the Prince of Tenors', appears with international star Vesselina Kasarova in Zürich Opera's starkly palpable staging of Bizet's ever-popular Carmen. The production sees Don José (Kaufmann) abandon his teenage attitudes in pursuit of Kasarova's free and independent Carmen - realising too late that his self-control has vanished, along with his youth.

Live performance from the Opéra de Lyon, July 1 2012. Controversial production by Olivier Py.

Live performance from the Vienna State Opera, 6 May 2010.

Live performance from Teatro alla Scala, 7 December 2009 .

Martin Kušej's brilliant 2006 Carmen represents a landmark interpretation of a truly timeless opera. Led by Rolando Villazón as Don José and Marina Domashenko in the title role, the virtuoso cast joins forces with the celebrated Staatskapelle Berlin under the direction of the legendary maestro Daniel Barenboim.

Сюжет Проспера Мериме перенесен в наше время, в один из самых бедных районов Кейптауна. Кармен, работающая на местной табачной фабрике, оказывается втянутой в неприятную историю с полицией. Ей не составляет труда вскружить голову прежде порядочному и законопослушному полицейскому. Теперь он готов не только закрыть глаза на ее проступки, но и пойти на более тяжкое преступление..

This 2003 performance of Georges Bizet's 19th century opera Carmen was produced and directed by filmmaker and stage director Franco Zeffirelli, best known to many for the Academy Award-winning big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Shot at the Arena di Verona, the production features Marina Domashenko in the title role and music by the Orchestra of the Arena di Verona under conductor Alain Lombard.

Он — примерный сотрудник милиции, честный и исполнительный, «правильный», как с плаката, скоро будет повышен по службе… Она — заключенная, отрабатывающая свой срок на табачной фабрике, прозванная за дикий и непокорный нрав «Кармен»… Роковая встреча девушки и охранника меняет их жизни раз и навсегда. И это даже не история любви, не еще один фильм о «мужчине и женщине», это история настоящей страсти, страсти на грани между свободой и смертью.

Женщина, рожденная совращать Мужчин. Мужчина, готовый пожертвовать всем ради Женщины. Во время своего путешествия по Испании французский писатель Проспер Мериме становится случайным свидетелем роковой любви. Южная красота и загадочная натура Кармен превращает сержанта Хосе в жертву страсти и ревности, с каждым новым любовником Кармен руки Хосе вновь и вновь окрашиваются в красный цвет. Его страстные слова любви наталкиваются на бессердечное равнодушие. Напрасно он молит, угрожает и унижается перед Кармен, предлагая ей обеспеченную жизнь…

David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores the Opera Comique to Bizet's masterpiece. Philippe Jordan, in his Glyndebourne debut, conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Glyndebourne Chorus, and a cast which includes Marcus Haddock, Laurent Naouri, and Lisa Milne.

Bizet's Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a perfect drama. With her charm, Karmen gets out of many situations.

A theater director decides to re-introduce Carmen with a new treatment, looking for an ideal actress to perform the main character, and the relationship between them soon develops for more than work.

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 25 March 1997.

Filmed production of Bizet’s Carmen at Earls Court in London, June 1989.

This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Levine, who brings out all the surging emotion and gripping drama in Bizet’s score. At the center of the story is Agnes Baltsa, whose smoky mezzo is tailor-made for the gypsy Carmen, an independent woman who glories in obeying only her own rules, but who is haunted by fate. Superstar tenor José Carreras is Don José, the solider from a small town who catches Carmen’s eye and is destroyed by his growing obsession with her. Samuel Ramey is the charismatic matador Escamillo, who lures Carmen away from Don José with tragic result. Leona Mitchell is Micaëla, the simple girl from Don José’s hometown who cannot save him. March 21, 1987 Matinee Broadcast.

Don José is a guard who begins an affair with the tempestuous Carmen. He is imprisoned and loses his job, then flees with her to the mountains. When the relationship starts to break down José refuses to acknowledge it and will not leave, even when he gets news that his mother is dying. Carmen, meanwhile, has taken up with the bullfighter Escamillo. Bizet's most famous opera is brought to the Glyndebourne Festival Opera by Sir Peter Hall, with Maria Ewing and Barry McCauley heading an international cast.

Erotic version of the well-known novel "Carmen" of Merimee with the use of the music from the opera of the same name from Georges Bizet. Carmen is a beautiful Gipsy girl and attracks many different men who start to fight for her love.

Фильм-опера. Снят в Испании без использования декораций, на фоне натуральных пейзажей провинции Андалузия в окрестностях Ронды, Кармоны и Севильи.

Spain 1820. It's meal time at the cigar factory. Carmen spends her break in the square. Close by is Don José cleaning his weapons.

Хореограф Антонио набирает труппу для постановки балета «Кармен». Во время репетиций хореограф поддается чарам настоящей Кармен, которая исполняет главную роль. Музыка и представление так захватывают героев, что правда жизни превращается в спектакль, а само действо ведет к кровавой развязке.

Carmen, presented in a production at the French Opera House.

CARMEN is the classic tale of forbidden passion between a young man and a spoken-for woman, Carmen. From ORF and TDK Music, this release features a live performance of Georges Bizet's 19th century operatic masterwork Carmen. Directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli, the production was shot on December 9, 1978, at the Wiener Straatsoper. Starring Elena Obraztsova in the titular role, the orchestra is conducted by Carlos Kleiber.

Carmen is a beautiful woman working in a business that is dedicated to smuggling. One day, Carmen fights and hurts to a smuggler woman, so a sergeant in the National Guard, José Navarro, stops detain her. In doing so he also falls in love with her, but jealousy will destroy his passion.

A pastor studying folklore in remote parts of 19th century Lithuania is invited to stay with a young nobleman. His mother is sequestered and mad. It seems she has been attacked by a bear as a young wife and local peasants whisper the young man may be the son of a bear. A doctor, who treats the mother with old-fashioned remedies, reveals this to the pastor. Young nobleman's wife is found with a bite and the man has disappeared into the woods.

In 1969’s WENUS Z ILLE (VENUS D’ILLE) Majewski returned to the work of Prosper Merimee, specifically his 1835 story “Venus d’Ille,” about an accursed statue (a story that was subsequently filmed by Mario and Lamberto Bava in 1979). Said statue, fashioned in the guise of an anguished woman, is seen in a remote inn, having been recently interred from the ground. The occasion is a wedding attended by the protagonist, an unassuming man who becomes caught up in a bizarre nightmare when the groom unthinkingly sticks his wedding ring on a finger of the statue--and can’t get it off!

История страстной цыганки, крутившей чувствами молодого сержанта Хосе. Южная красота и загадочная натура Кармен околдовывают сержанта Хосе. Но его страстные слова любви наталкиваются на бессердечное равнодушие. Он умоляет, угрожает и унижается перед Кармен, предлагая ей все на свете, но — напрасно…

Carmen, a free-spirited young woman who sometimes earns money as a prostitute, lives a bohemian existence in a small town where most of the locals allow her to do as she pleases. Jose, a naive young man who has just been hired as the town's new police officer, arrests her. However, Jose is soon drawn into Carmen's sensual spell, and he is compelled to do her bidding as she slowly brings him to his doom.

This spectacular opera film was taped in 1967 and is based on the 1966 Salzburg Festival production directed by Herbert von Karajan himself, who also conducts the fabulous Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The production features the three greatest exponents of their respective roles at the time: Grace Bumbry’s magnificently seductive-toned Carmen, Mirella Freni’s ineffably lovely, touching Micaëla and Jon Vickers’s thrillingly manic-depressive Don José. On its release the film was hailed by Die Presse, (Vienna) as a “unique artistic event”, while Le Monde felt that Karajan’s production brought “a whole new dimension” to the opera, “combined with a magisterial interpretation”. A classical and utterly dramatic approach to probably the world's most beloved opera – Karajan’s Carmen is as much a delicacy for opera fans as it is a perfect starter for newcomers.

In the nineteenth century, a young couple head to the countryside to spend the weekend together. On the train they encounter a mysterious Englishman heading for the same destination. Suspicious of this individual, they take the room next to his - the titular Blue Room - and a mystery ensues...

Lively scenes of Paris, all narrated by Maurice Chevalier, link together four dramatic ballet choreographies by Roland Petit: La Croqueuse de diamants (The Gold Digger), Cyrano de Bergerac, Deuil en 24 heures (A Merry Mourning), and Carmen.

В фильме, рассказывается о таких моральных качествах, как верность своему народу, патриотизм, борьба с захватчиками.

В испанской деревне Ронда против войск Наполеона борется вооруженная группа под командованием Антонио, в которого влюблена Микаэла. Но Антонио страстно любит красивую цыганку Кармен. После кровавого противостояния с французскими солдатами Антонио находит убежище у Кармен. Сгорая от ревности, Микаэла предаёт любимого и сообщает о месте его убежища французам. Антонио попадает в тюрьму. Тем временем сержант французской армии Хосе влюбляется в Кармен.

Одно из самых больших несчастий и бед, которые принесла цивилизация человечеству — работорговля. Таманго — это африканский воин, узнавший власть денег и быстро привыкший к «благам» цивилизации — спиртному, оружию, предательству. Таманго такой же чернокожий, как и те, кого он продает белым. Но воин верит, что репутация хорошего поставщика «черного дерева» сможет защитить его от любой беды.

A little princess, Ranjani is tattooed with the royal insignia as part of tradition, and the same night, the child is kidnapped by one of the members of the tattoo gang who brings her up as a gypsy girl renaming her Rani. Unaware of her royal lineage, she grows up hawking things on the street and getting into brawls with no punches pulled. She falls in love with a soldier and the story progresses with twists. After several hardships, she realises the truth, and all is well that ends well.

The daughter of a slain man pushes her brother toward vengeance in 19th-century Corsica.

Экранизация одного из самых романтичных и трагических произведений XIX века французского писателя Проспера Мериме - «Кармен».

По новелле Проспера Мериме. Драматическая история любви Кармен, цыганки, и Дона Хосе, бригадира драконов. Из любви к прекрасному Дон Хосе становится дезертиром. Но она оставляет его ради привлекательного тореадора Лукаса. Раздираемый ревностью, солдат совершает непоправимое, убивая Кармен.

A woman faints during an opera performance and dreams that she is the protagonist and when she is about to die, she wakes up.

The composition includes two short stories: "The Swineherd" (based on the fairy tale by H.C. Andersen) and "Heaven and Hell" (based on the short story by P. Merime).

The story of a beautiful, vivacious gypsy girl and the two doomed men who fall for her.

Когда танцовщица Кармен посещает тореадора Антонио, который зарезал цыганку, в тюрьме она встречает бригадного драгуна Хосе. Они сразу же полюбили друг друга, и с этого дня Хосе часто приходит в кафе, где танцует Кармен. Когда Кармен ревностно ранит другого танцора в драке, Хосе приказывают арестовать её...

Silhouette film. Based on Bizet’s opera “Carmen”.

In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimée’s classic story of passion and fatal jealousy, Carmen. With a score based on Bizet’s opera, Gipsy Blood features celebrated American soprano Marguerite Namara as the capricious gypsy girl from the cigarette factory; her co-performers include Thomas Burke as Carmen’s tormented lover, Don José, and New Zealand-born baritone Lance Fairfax as his rival, the toreador Escamillo.

The Loves of Carmen is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by Raoul Walsh. The film, based on the novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée, stars Dolores del Río in the title role, and Don Alvarado as Jose.

Feyder's scenario very closely follows Don José's own account of his story and his fatal relation with the gypsy Carmen in the third chapter of Mérimée's short novel.

On the verge of getting married to Marijke, young and insecure detective Jozef is assigned the case of a murdered factory girl. His relationship is threatened when he becomes madly infatuated with Carmen, the alluring prime suspect.

The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus damnation.

Группа контрабандистов прибывает морем на шлюпке, надеясь незаметно переправить свои товары через городские стены города. Для этой цели они хотели воспользоваться проломом в стене, который охраняет офицер Дарн Хосьери, однако попытка с ним договориться не увенчалась успехом, после чего они вынуждены были переправить тюки с контрабандой в свой лагерь в горах. Их подруга Кармен, узнав про препятствие в виде офицерского поста, обещает, что сумеет им помочь, соблазнив Дарна, громогласно заявляя: «Каждый человек может быть подкуплен чем-нибудь. Поскольку все вы беспомощны, предоставьте мне дона Хосе. Я отдам вам этого неподкупного офицера, связанным по рукам и ногам, — любовью».

A Spanish soldier falls under the spell of a fiery gypsy girl named Carmen. His obsession with her leads to his ruin.

Hot-blooded gypsy Carmen attempts to seduce Don Jose, a lawman sent to thwart a gang of illegal smugglers in Spain. Carmen's plan backfires when Don Jose's passion for the gypsy girl escalates into a jealous rage as she spurns him for her bullfighter beau, Escamillo, with tragic results.

A three-reel version of the famous stage production. Don Jose, the hero of the famous book by Prosper Merimee, and Bizet's celebrated opera, was born in the Basque Provinces of Spain. He was a young, good-looking peasant, devoted to his old mother, and greatly in love with his pretty sweetheart, Mercedes. The plans of Jose and Mercedes for an early marriage were rudely dissipated by the news that the young man had been drafted for service in the Spanish army. Jose comforted his mother and Mercedes, telling them that he would soon return and they would never be separated again.

A three-reel version of the famous stage production. Don Jose, the hero of the famous book by Prosper Merimee, and Bizet's celebrated opera, was born in the Basque Provinces of Spain. He was a young, good-looking peasant, devoted to his old mother, and greatly in love with his pretty sweetheart, Mercedes. The plans of Jose and Mercedes for an early marriage were rudely dissipated by the news that the young man had been drafted for service in the Spanish army. Jose comforted his mother and Mercedes, telling them that he would soon return and they would never be separated again.

A 1913 short directed by Stanner E.V Taylor and starring Marion Leonard.