Opera

Les pêcheurs de perles

2 upcoming performances in New York

Georges Bizet’s *Les pêcheurs de perles* is a three-act French opera (1863) set on an imagined ancient Ceylon, where two friends test a vow of loyalty when both are drawn to the same woman, herself bound by a priestess’s oath. The score is remembered for its ensemble writing and the famed friendship duet that has long outlived the opera’s early reception. It has no singular New York premiere narrative that dominates its history, but it persists here through smaller companies and revivals that keep French Romantic repertory in circulation. Now playing at Amore Opera.