Sergeant Don José finds his world turned upside down when he encounters the seductive Carmen: swept away by her passion, he falls head over heels in love with this fascinating free-thinker. He abandons his fiancée Micaëla as quickly as he also forgets his duty as a soldier, joining Carmen’s band of smugglers in the Spanish mountains. However, his new-found happiness does not last long, because Carmen’s heart already belongs to the bullfighter Escamillo. Don José is consumed with mindless jealousy and swears revenge. read less