Taken from the Reader's Digest video 'Wildlife symphony'
Music performed by the London Promenade Orchestra conducted by Eric Hammerstein from a 1986 Reader's Digest recording.
This glorious duet for tenor and baritone (here heard in an orchestral version) is one of the pearls of the operatic repertoire. In Bizet's exotically romantic opera 'The Pearl Fishers', Nadir and Zurga, pearl fishers and priests on the isle of Ceylon, rejoice at their reunion after years of separation and recall the beautiful Leila, with whom they were both in love, which brought about the destruction of their friendship. Leila becomes a priestess and the old rivalry flares up again.

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