#bizet

[detroitlib]

Portrait of mezzo-soprano Grace Bumbry in the title role of Bizet's opera "Carmen." Printed on front: "Louis Melancon, Metropolitan Opera House, New York, N.Y." Label on back: "Metropolitan Opera Assn., Inc., Press Dept., Grace Bumbry in the title role of Bizet's Carmen."

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

[lazuilis]

l'amour est un oiseau rebelle

[diemelusine]

Emma Calvé as Carmen (1894) by Théobald Chartran. Clark Art Institute.

[trigona-necrophaga]

Once you hear Bizet’s L'amour est un oiseau rebelle, it follows you everywhere. There is no escape.

[roseyourewearingablackdress]

[nofatclips]

Everything Will Be OK, a short film by Don Hertzfeldt

[reine-du-sourire]

Lock Figaro and Escamillo in a room together for ten minutes and they'll either emerge the very best of friends or they will kill each other

Their personalities are just so fantastic 😊

[figureskatingcostumes]

Sofia Samodelkina skating to Habanera from Carmen at the 2021 Junior Grand Prix Ljubljana, 2022 Russian Junior Nationals and 2022 Russian Nationals.

(Sources: Getty Sport and Mikhail Sharov)