(Bizet).
Performed by THE BRITISH NATIONAL OPERA COMPANY.
Relayed from The Empire, Liverpool.
The third act of this popular opera opens with the scene in the Smugglers' Cave in the rocky mountain pass. It includes the fight between Don Jose and Escamillo, the bull fighter, both of whom are in love with Carmen. The smugglers separate the fighters, Escamillo walks away singing of his love for Carmen, who tries to follow him, but is stopped by Don Jose. Mieaela, the peasant girl who has come in search of Jose, appears, and the situation becomes tensely dramatic. She begs him to return to his mother, who is dying, and they leave the cave together.