Performer:Viotti Marcello: conductor Monti Piero: chorus master Pizzi Pier Luigi: direction, scenes and costumes Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro la Fenice di Venezia Léïla - Massis Annick Nadir - Nakajima Yasu Zurga - Grassi Luca Nourabad - De Donato Luigi Giuliani Letizia: prima ballerina Iancu Gheorghe: male leader Teatro Malibran, Venice, 2004
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Les pêcheurs de perles dates from 1863 and represents much more than a mere operatic exercise written by a twenty-five-year-old composer. Pêcheurs is, as a matter of fact, the only other Bizet opera, beside Carmen, to have remained in the repertoire. This opera contains memorable passages, which have ensured its long-lasting success and which many great singers (beginning with Caruso) have recorded and performed: for example the aria of Nadir Je crois entendre encore; the beautiful aria of Léïla Comme autrefois, dans la nuit sombre and, above all, the superb duet between Léïla and Nadir Ton cour n’a pas compris le mien. This Venetian production features an extraordinary Annick Massis as Léïla and the refined staging of Pier Luigi Pizzi. Soon available in DVD.
LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES
