Palm Beach Opera's "The Pearl Fishers" opened Feb. 20 for a three-performance run at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach. The colorful and striking set design and costumes were by Dame Zandra Rhodes, ...

“Fabulous” means “derived from fable”. The world Bizet creates in The Pearl Fishers is wildly over the top. Mass murder and sacrilege! Storms and steamy sex! This new production of Pearl Fishers at ...

Bizet's librettists, Cormon and Carré, didn't really know, or probably much care, where they were: pearl fishers, or rather divers, Nadir and Zurga invoke the Buddhist temple in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in ...

“There were neither fishermen in the libretto nor pearls in the music.” That was the scathing verdict of Le Figaro on Georges Bizet’s Pearl Fishers when the youthful opera juxtaposing love and duty ...

In a curious way, the limitations of Opera North’s new version, in what they call a “concert staging” – meaning that it can be performed both in a theatre (as last night) or elsewhere without the ...

Penny Woolcock’s 2010 production for English National Opera of The Pearl Fishers, now enjoying its second revival, has generally been acclaimed for its eye-catching staging. Just as important, however ...