Seville is famous as the setting for at least three great classical operas: Mozart's Marriage of Figaro,
Rossini's Barber of Seville, and Bizet's Carmen. (Mozart's Don Giovanni is not explicitly set there,
though other tellings of the Don Juan legend are.) Only Carmen, however, refers to specific places in Seville;
it begins outside the tobacco factory, and the building still exists, though it now houses part of the administration of
Seville University.
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