Carmen

Following the success of Davide Pizzigoni's illustrated Magic Flute, this elegant edition of Bizet's Carmen is the ultimate opera lover's gift, combining a sumptuously illustrated and lyrically translated libretto with a lively music CD.

Georges Bizet's final opera, Carmen, has become one of the best-known plots with the most memorable of music, despite its initial rejection by Paris critics following its "scandalous" 1875 premiere at the OpŽra-Comique, a theater known for works of a lighter…