Premise: Ernest Guiraud (] ; 26 June 1837 – 6 May 1892) was a French composer and music teacher born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for writing the traditional orchestral recitatives used for Bizet's opera "Carmen" and for Offenbach's opera "Les contes d'Hoffmann" ("The Tales of Hoffmann").
Hypothesis: recitatives used for Bizet's opera "Carmen" and for the tales of Hoffman was the traditional recitatives that r: Ernest Guiraud is mostly associated with