Opera-Ballet "Carmen"

The ballet "Carmen" is based on an opera called the same way. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based, at the time, on a novela called "Carmen" too, written by Prosper Mérimée.
The opera has musical numbers that are separated by dialogues. It tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naïve soldier who is seduced by the wiles of the fiery Gypsy, Carmen. José abandons his childhood sweetheart and deserts from his military duties, yet loses Carmen's love to the glamorous toreador Escamillo, after which José kills her in a jealous rage. It were reproduce by the first time on Paris 3 March 1875.
The depictions of proletarian life, immorality and lawlessness, and the tragic death of the main character on stage, broke new ground in French opera and were highly controversial. The opera were reproduced the first time in Paris, March 3rd, 1875. The opera were not revived in Paris until 1883. After that it became the most  frequently performed operas.
The music of Carmen has been widely acclaimed for its brilliance of melody, harmony, atmosphere and orchestration, and for the skill with which Bizet musically represented the emotions and suffering of his characters.
It's a great opera and ballet. It will performed on Santiago this saturday August 31st, 2013 on the Teatro Municipal as a ballet. It seems promissing.

Speech to recieve the new Access group

Good morning everyone, I’m so happy to be here, I’m really nervous, but for me is a huge honor to recieve you. This is a wonderfull oportunity and a great experience. Here, you can meet beautiful people, partners, friends, and after a while, they will be like your family. For me they are.
You're going to learn lots of things about being a group, about share. This is not just a group to learn english, this group teaches you fellowship and other things, It will be sad to get up early every saturday, but it definetely worth it.
I'm so glad and happy that the U.S Embassy, at the end, has decided to continue with this program, because it will open you so many doors. You'll visit many beautiful places and will have really great times. You too have the chance to travel to USA, to speak with Americans, to hear testimonies about the program and many other things. I hope you to seize this opportunity, because this is one in a million. You will not regret about this.
At first is a little bit difficult to use to hear everything in english, write in english and read in english, but with the time you'll feel confortable with it and even if you don't notice, you'll learn a lot, really a lot. For example,with the  2012-2013 Access group we went to  the "Museo Bellas Artes", "Cerro Santa Lucia", "MIM", "Teatro Municipal", "Valparaiso-Viña Del Mar", "Movistar Arena: Harlem Globetrotter's Show", and many other places. You maybe can go to more places than we, but try to don't miss classes, sometimes you'll be relaxed, but don't lose your first thouts of this, don't lose your enthusiasm from the begining. If you need anything of us, you can count on us, I'm speeking for the hole group with this, don't doubt it. Well, my best wishes for you in this new adventure. Thanks to everyone.