By Márcio Bezerra Before writing the revolutionary Carmen, Georges Bizet tried his hand at the operatic genre with a few operas that were given lukewarm receptions by the public and critics. His first significant opera, Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) was written in 1863 when he was not even 25, and had just finished his residency in Rome as a recipient of the … [Read more...]