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Carmen: Don Jos
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Alonso began to create his Carmen before a note of the music was prepared. Two years before he visited Moscow and worked with Plisetskaya he began working out movements with members of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba. Only once Shchedrin saw the rehearsals with Plisetskaya did he commit to writing the music. The scenario was developed by Alonso and departs from the familiar opera plot. The emphasis is on the characters of Carmen, Don José and the toreador rather than the plot. The setting is an abstraction of a bullring with dancers in masks seated on tall stools representing the spectators.
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Carmen told Carolyn Bessette Kennedy's sister Lauren not to fly in a small plane as she thought it would be dangerous for her. Lauren, her sister, and her brother-in-law, John F. Kennedy, Jr., died when their small plane crashed near Martha's Vineyard in July 1999.
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His mind is filled with thoughts of Carmen when Micaela, his old love, returns, to hand him a purse and tell him of his mother. The tender feelings called up by Micaela’s presence, and by the memories of the old home, banish for a time the heated passion which Carmen has aroused. Don José will, as he tells himself, be faithful to Micaela and fulfil his mother’s wishes. He is just about to cast aside the gipsy’s flowers when a tumult is heard in the cigarette factory, and the girls rush out in mad excitement. There had been a quarrel, it appears, and Carmen has wounded one of her comrades. Carmen is seized, and as fate would have it, the officer in charge hands her over to the custody of Don José.
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Hiding out among the smugglers, Don José regrets leaving his home and Carmen loses interest in him. Joining her friends in fortune telling, Carmen foresees her own death. When the gypsies leave Don José to guard their plunder, Micaëla arrives, hoping to convince Don José to return home to his ailing mother. She is instead forced to hide as Don José fights with Escamillo, who has come to look for Carmen. The gypsies return to separate the men and Escamillo invites them all to his next bullfight. Although Don José then leaves with Micaëla, he is determined to recapture Carmen’s love.
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José is obsessed with Carmen and sees her everywhere he looks. Her image plagues him and he becomes jealous. When José fights his superior, whom he finds with Carmen, it is important for Mr. Nixon that one man must end the fight in death. After José has killed for Carmen he has no hope of returning to his former life. The blood he has spilled for Carmen binds José to her. From then on he must lead Carmen's life, free of the society that so controlled his being.
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