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Adaptations

There was also the 1916 "A Burlesque on Carmen" with Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, and Ben Turpin. I don't post or edit articles but I offer this for anyone who wishes to add to what is there. 2603:6081:6606:5410:A994:61FB:14F:3779 (talk) 20:21, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's very kind. This is one of numerous skits, and I don't think it needs mention in the article. What do other editors think? Tim riley talk 22:03, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree on both accounts! It is very kind, and it is too minor. Lova Falk (talk) 11:25, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A suggestion, kind I hope

I would like to propose a small change to the second paragraph:
'and the tragic death of the main character on stage' to 'and the murder of the main character on stage'.
Partly because it is more direct language, but also because the Salle Favart had already seen a 'tragic death' in Auber's Manon Lescaut nearly 20 years previously.Cg2p0B0u8m (talk) 18:56, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I support that. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:35, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- Sounds a good idea, I think. Tim riley talk 10:33, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  I changed it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:16, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Inaccurate claims about the characterization of Carmen and Don José in the original novella

This article contains the passage, "In the novella, Carmen and José are presented much less sympathetically than they are in the opera; Bizet's biographer Mina Curtiss comments that Mérimée's Carmen, on stage, would have seemed 'an unmitigated and unconvincing monster, had her character not been simplified and deepened'." But the novella actually presents Carmen and José in a more complex light than the opera, as the opera skips over details such as: José's isolation as a Basque man in Spanish society, which contributes to his attraction to Carmen who is another outsider; José sparing the narrator who has shown kindness to him; José taking full responsibility for Carmen's death by burying her body according to her wishes, turning himself in, and arranging prayers for her soul; Carmen urging José in Basque to avoid a conflict with an angry lieutenant; Carmen tracking down José after the lieutenant wounds him; Carmen tending to José's injuries twice, the second time after she says she doesn't love him as much as she did at first; and Carmen bringing José into her gang to save him from execution. How should I correct these inaccurate claims about the characterization of Carmen and José? YukaSylvie (talk) 21:23, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]