This website has reviewed performances in the United States of two operas from, respectively, France’s Second Empire and Third Republic - Bizet’s “Les Pecheurs de Perles” and Saint-Saens’ “Samson et Dalila”. Their stories incorporate exotic and fantastic themes; the music that Bizet and Saint-Saens composed for these operas are as immersed in exoticism as the [...]
Entries from February 2008
In Quest of Exotic French Opera – 2008
February 1st, 2008
Tags: Quests and Anticipations