Bizet's Opera Les pêcheurs de perles

Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers), is an opera in three acts by Georges Bizet, with a libretto by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré. Although other composers, notably Hector Berlioz, found considerable merit in the opera, it was rarely performed in Bizet's lifetime. But from 1886 onwards it was performed with some regularity in Europe and North America, and from the mid-20th century has entered the repertory of opera houses worldwide.

Je crois entendre encore is an aria from Act I of Les pêcheurs de perles. It is has a barcarole rhythm, with a dominant English horn whereby, according to opera historian Hervé Lacombe, "the listener has the impression that the horn is singing."

Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875) was a French composer, mainly of operas. His masterpieces Carmen, the L'Arlésienne Suites, the Symphony in C, and Jeux d'enfants (for piano four-hands) are good indications of what Bizet might have achieved had his life not been cut short by illness.

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