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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...