“There were neither fishermen in the libretto nor pearls in the music.” That was the scathing verdict of Le Figaro on Georges Bizet’s Pearl Fishers when the youthful opera juxtaposing love and duty ...

Bizet's librettists, Cormon and Carré, didn't really know, or probably much care, where they were: pearl fishers, or rather divers, Nadir and Zurga invoke the Buddhist temple in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in ...

Go see Bizet’s “other opera” just to hear the duet “Au fond du temple saint.” Two men (a tenor and a baritone) renew their friendship, even though they have both fallen in love with the same woman.

Pardon Matthew Polenzani if his mind wanders ever so slightly midway through Act 1 of Bizet's opera "Les Pecheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers)." It's during the entrance of Leila, the young priestess ...