MUSIClassical ALLEGRO
Topic: NEWS composers
Georges Bizet is opera’s one-hit wonder, right? Wrong, toreador breath. More than a decade before “Carmen,” the French composer who would die at 36 wrote what remains one of the most tuneful operas in the repertoire. Granted “The Pearl Fishers,” which the Lyric Opera of Kansas City opens Saturday at the Lyric Theatre, suffers from dramatic and narrative flaws. (“The action strains credulity at times,” wrote Hugh MacDonald with inimitable British understatement.) 
