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Now almost certainly the most popular and frequently performed of all operas--Carmen has transmuted into dance drama, American musical. The hugely successful Oscar Hammerstein adaptation--Carmen Jones and reaches huge audiences through film and television. The opera's most famous tunes--Carmen's provocative Habanera and Seguidilla, the Toreador's Song, the preludes to Acts 1 and 4 that invoke the festive atmosphere of the bullring, and the fate motif that presages Carmen'stragic end, brutally stabbed on stage by her abandoned lover,are known to legions who have never set foot in an opera house.