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For anyone who admires French operatic art or the sound of a finely sculpted tenor voice, Pearl`s generous and well-planned recital of recordings by the legendary tenor Georges Thill (1897-1984) will ...

Georges Bizet was just 24 when he wrote his first full-scale opera. He soon wished that he hadn’t. The Pearl Fishers, wrote one caustic Parisian critic, had “neither fishermen in the libretto nor ...

Set in Spain and sung in French, George Bizet’s Carmen has some of the most famous melodies and characters in any opera. The opera opens outside a cigarette factory in Seville, where soldiers have ...

When the curtain first came down on Georges Bizet’s Carmen, on March 3, 1875, nobody in attendance would have guessed that they had witnessed what would become admired as one of opera’s finest ...

150 years after its original debut, it's safe to say Georges Bizet's Carmen is one of the most well-known and beloved operas in the world. Now the Arizona Opera is spearheading an ambitious attempt to ...