Edgar is an operatic dramma lirico in three acts (originally four acts)[1] by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, freely based on the play in verse La Coupe et les lèvres by Alfred de Musset.

Puccini repeatedly revised it until a 1905 performance in Buenos Aires, before declaring the work irredeemable, describing it as "warmed-up soup".

[3] It is still occasionally performed, including a 2005 recording by the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia conducted by Alberto Veronesi and featuring Plácido Domingo.

[3] Edgar, Puccini's second opera, was composed on a commission from the publisher Ricordi after the successful reception of his first stage work, Le Villi.

The gypsy-like figure of Tigrana (supposedly the child of "wandering Moors") also parallels the anti-heroine of Bizet's Carmen.

Some of the music that was cut in 1891 was reused in Tosca and became the beautiful act 3 duet, "Amaro sol per te m'era il morire!".

In setting the libretto of Edgar I have, with all respect to the memory of my friend Fontana, made a blunder (una cantonata).

The autograph of the acts 2 and 4, which was believed lost till 2008, was owned until her death by Simonetta Puccini, the composer's granddaughter.

American musicologist Dr. Linda Fairtile[8] is working on producing the critical edition of the first version, but the score performed in Turin is based on Puccini's autograph.

[9] However, the original version was given its UK premiere at Lewes Town Hall by New Sussex Opera on 25 October 2012.

Fidelia gives an awakening Edgar a sprig of almond blossoms, but leaves when she sees Tigrana approaching.

Edgar weeps over the lifeless body as the soldiers capture Tigrana, and the crowd prays.