A group of flamenco dancers are rehearsing a very Spanish version of Bizet's dramatization of Prosper Merimee's novella Carmen. The choreographer Antonio falls in love with Carmen, the main dancer. Their story then turns similar to the play.—Michel Rudoy <[email protected]>

While rehearing Bizet's Carmen, the middle-aged choreographer Antonio brings sexy Carmen to perform the lead role. Antonio falls in love with Carmen, an independent, seductive woman incapable of accepting a possessive love. When Carmen has an affair with another dancer, Antonio is consumed by his jealousy like Don José in the original opera, entwining fiction with reality.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil