toreador
Noun
Meaning
A bullfighter.
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Carmen has since become one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the classical canon ; the " Habanera " from act 1 and the " Toreador Song " from act 2 are among the best known of all operatic arias.
The most famous of these, The Toreador, depicts a sacred ceremony in which individuals jump over the backs of large bulls.
Invited inside, he introduces himself with the " Toreador Song " ("Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre") and sets his sights on Carmen, who brushes him aside.
In 2006, he bridged two disparate genres of music by performing a heavy metal variation of the Toreador Song from the opera Carmen with the band Inner Terrestrials.