Carmen - Habanera (Bizet; Anna Caterina Antonacci, The Royal Opera)
5:47
Carmen. Toreador. G.Bizet
4:06
Carmen – The Flower Song (Jonas Kaufmann, The Royal Opera)
13:47
Georges Bizet - Carmen suite No. 2, Maciej Tomasiewicz & Polish Youth Symphony Orchestra
The suddenness of Bizet's death and awareness of his depressed mental state fuelled rumors of suicide. Although the exact cause of death was never settled with certainty, physicians discounted such theories and eventually determined the cause as "a cardiac complication of acute articular rheumatism.