Quote Originally Posted by Gallop View Post

Please take a ton of Valium to these people who I don't know where they came from because they certainly didn't come from Spain.
The opera "Carmen" came from France. Bizet never even visited Spain and communication isn't what it is today. It isn't a realistic "snapshot" of anything.

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I voted for both. I couldn't choose between one of the great opera songs with chorus vs one of the great arias.

However, if the "Gypsy Song" was an option, I would have voted for that. Why? It's the most vulgar. It's a tawdry tale of awful people doing horrible things and so is at its best when it is at its most vulgar.