Word: guiraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gentele, as well as Igesz and Bernstein, the secret was not so much in making improvements as in going back to the original. They scrapped the musical recitatives written after Bizet's death by Ernest Guiraud and restored much of the original spoken French dialogue-never before heard at the Met. Even listeners with only high school French got a better sense of the plot. Bernstein looked at the score as though he had never conducted it before -which he had not-and came up with a broad, slow but crackingly taut performance that underlined Carmen's sense...