But opera needs him more for works like Bizet's "Pearl Fishers."

The bay was once a premier pearl fishery - so famous that Bizet set his opera The Pearl Fishers here.

And a shot of color is just what "The Pearl Fishers" ("Les Pêcheurs de Perles") needs.

"Pearl Fishers" is a slight work that rests on a single, pretty duet that returns regularly during its three acts.

Bizet needn't have bothered to go the exotic East to write The Pearl Fishers.

And the Pearl Fishers duet?

When you sang on the beach, when you did that magnificent duet from The Pearl Fishers.

"Sorry I couldn't stick around after The Pearl Fishers," Banks said.

The Pearl Fishers (1915)

And I'm now going to do another one, "The Pearl Fishers," and this time I'm doing the set, too.

But opera needs him more for works like Bizet's "Pearl Fishers."

"Pearl Fishers" is a slight work that rests on a single, pretty duet that returns regularly during its three acts.

There'll be a lot to do before we can take the Pearl Fisher to the safe mooring.

Killashandra found the speed of the Pearl Fisher incredibly exhilarating.

When you sang on the beach, when you did that magnificent duet from The Pearl Fisher.

Bizet needn't have bothered to go the exotic East to write The Pearl Fishers.

She turned back, to approximate the view she would have had, and decided that the Pearl Fisher had conveyed her to that wretched little island.

And the Pearl Fishers duet?

"Sorry I couldn't stick around after The Pearl Fishers," Banks said.

Lars immediately offered them passage on the Pearl Fisher, giving Killashandra a guarded and rueful grin of regret.