Georges Bizet was just 24 years old when his opera, “The Pearl Fishers” (“Les pecheurs de perles”) " now in a new-to-Chicago production at Lyric Opera " had its premiere in Paris in 1863. Of course it would be “Carmen,” his masterwork of 1875 (which debuted three months before the composer died of a heart […]
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:45PM on November 20, 2017