Conceived and composed as an opèra comique (a genre it completely transformed), Carmen was converted after Bizet's tragic early death to grand opera with the addition of recitatives composed by Ernest Guiraud.
,This superbly produced full-score edition replicates this grand-opera version, the one most commonly produced on operatic stages today.
,Reprinted from the authoritative edition originally edited by Kurt Soldan and published by C. F. Peters, Leipzig.
