Georges Bizet
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Georges Bizet was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has becom
Bizet photographed by Étienne Carjat (1875)
Part of the Paris Conservatoire, where Bizet studied from 1848 to 1857 (photographed in 2009)
Charles Gounod, a mentor and inspiration to Bizet in the latter's Conservatoire years
The Villa Medici, the official home of the French Académie in Rome since 1803
Les pêcheurs de perles
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Les pêcheurs de perles is an opera in three acts by the French composer Georges Bizet, to a libretto by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré. It was premiered on 30 September 1863 at the Théâtre Lyrique in
Georges Bizet
…success, he began many theatrical projects during the 1860s, most of which were abandoned. Neither of his two operas that reached the stage in this time—Les pêcheurs de perles and La jolie fille de Perth—were immediately successful. After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, during which Bizet served in the National Guard…
Final scene of act 1 (La Scala, 1886)
From left to right: Giuseppe De Luca (Zurga), Frieda Hempel (Leila) and Enrico Caruso (Nadir), in the New York Met 1916 production
Michel Carré
Théâtre Lyrique (centre right), Paris, where Les pêcheurs de perles received its first performance on 30 September 1863