José refuses, and Carmen tells him to leave. She is unimpressed: if he really loved her, he would desert the army and join her in a life of freedom in the mountains. To prove his love, José shows her the flower she threw at him and confesses how its scent made him not lose hope during the weeks in prison.
She dances for him now, but when a bugle call is heard he says he must return to the barracks. Carmen arouses his jealousy by telling him how she danced for Zuniga.
The smugglers withdraw as José approaches. Frasquita and Mercédès are willing to help, but Carmen refuses because she is in love. After the tavern guests have left with Escamillo, the smugglers Dancaïre and Remendado explain their latest scheme to the women. The bullfighter Escamillo enters, boasting about the pleasures of his profession, and flirts with Carmen, who tells him that she is involved with someone else.
Zuniga tells Carmen that José has just been released. Don José is arrested.Ĭarmen and her friends Frasquita and Mercédès entertain the guests at the tavern. As they leave for prison, Carmen escapes. Mesmerized, he agrees to let her get away. Left alone with him, she entices José with suggestions of a rendezvous at Lillas Pastia’s tavern. Carmen refuses to answer Zuniga’s questions, and José is ordered to take her to prison. José is about to throw away the flower when a fight erupts inside the factory between Carmen and another girl. As he begins to read the letter, Micaëla leaves. She brings a letter from José’s mother, who lives in a village in the countryside. José picks up the flower and hides it when Micaëla returns. Carmen throws a flower at him, and the girls go back to work. Only one man pays no attention to her: Don José. She tells her admirers that love is free and obeys no rules. When the factory bell rings, the men of Seville gather to watch the female workers-especially their favorite, the Gypsy Carmen. The relief guard, headed by Lieutenant Zuniga, soon arrives, and José learns from Moralès that Micaëla has been looking for him. Moralès, another corporal, tells her he will return with the changing of the guard. Among them is Micaëla, a peasant girl, who asks for a corporal named Don José. In Seville by a cigarette factory, soldiers comment on the townspeople.
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