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The opera has an inherent shock value, which can be lessened over time with familiarity.

The myth evolved because the clinically depressed, mortally ill Georges Bizet refused to accept the manifest evidence that the opera from its very first performance had become a wild Parisian hit, its composer preferring to dwell on the admonitions of certain curmudgeonly critics who felt it inappropriate to Paris’ Opera-Comique. An enduring operatic myth is that Bizet’s “Carmen” was initially a failure.