Yasu nakajima biography of william

          Abdelsamad, Yahya, xxii....

          Georges Bizet: Les Pecheurs de Perles
          Annick Massis, Yasu Nakajima, Luca Grassi, Luigi De Donato
          Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro La Fenice, Marcello Viotti, conductor
          Dynamic 33459 [DVD]

          Les Pecheurs de Perles is not a terribly major opera.

          Yasu Nakajima as Scottish nobleman.

        1. Yasu Nakajima as Scottish nobleman.
        2. The most prominent theological philosopher and apologist of the 20th century.
        3. Abdelsamad, Yahya, xxii.
        4. Tenor Yasu Nakajima, ideally youthful and handsome for Nadir, tries hard but cannot muster the elegant, finely shaded delivery to make a memorable.
        5. The creation of an attractive textbook of accounting history in Japan yields a rich harvest of information in one package.

          6. Ned Rorem once memorably described it as “harmless” concerning the occasion on which it shared a double bill with the world premiere of Poulenc’s Les Mammeles De Tiresias. But for a competent early work by a promising composer who went on to greater things (well, one greater thing, given his tragically early death), Pecheurs has been given an enormous amount of attention both on stage and in the recording studio.

          An attractive work of conventional Second Empire French oriental exotica, it’s blessed to contain two beloved numbers that have won the hearts of opera lovers whose loyalty keeps it before the public with some frequency.
          One of those numbers does not appear on this Dynamic video in its familiar form.