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The Opernhaus Zürich revives a 2011 production of Bizet’s second most famous opera, with Javier Camarena as Nadir.

Directed by Matthew Eberhardt and conducted by Matthew Kofi Waldren, this semi-staging of Bizet's opera is well worth experiencing, despite its weak plot. 

The staging sways between tackiness and naivety, like those old Christmas cards with sequins glued to the edges of the figures.

Andrew Sinclair and Zandra Rhodes' hugely colourful and affecting “Pearl Fishers” for Kansas City Lyric Opera

In Georges Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles, two men’s vow of eternal friendship is threatened by their love for the same woman. Only one man lives to tell the tale. 

The second performance of the Met's Pearl Fishers saw one of the leads withdraw mid-performance again. A welcome performance by young baritone Alexander Birch Elliott could not rescue the evening. 

A remarkable Leïla from Desiree Frahn and insightful direction from Michael Gow combine for a precious production of Bizet’s early masterpiece.

The casting was something special. Each of the principals was fun to watch, magnificent to listen to, believable in every gesture, look and touch. 

Internationally acclaimed film director Wim Wenders and Daniel Barenboim give their debut with a rarely played opera by Georges Bizet.

Bizet's The Pearl Fishers has its problems, but a good account of its score does have its pleasures, especially when it's all brightened up by the presence of Emma Matthews.

Penny Woolcock's shanty town production continues to improve with each outing. This time, ENO has found singers who can negotiate the vocal challenges more naturally. 

Beautiful sets and a fine cast led by Guillaume Tourniaire can't quite compensate for the dramatic weaknesses in Opera Australia's new production of Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles.

Les Pêcheurs de Perles is a graceful if senseless piece, composed when Georges Bizet was only 25 years old and miles away from the psycho-musical drama of Carmen.

Zurich’s revival of Georges Bizet’s three-act opera Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) pulls out all the stops, but it was not to everyone’s liking.

Uneven musical values mar Seattle Opera's colourful production of Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles.

School’s out for summer and with it the opportunity for the Royal Opera’s Jette Parker Young Artists to showcase their talents in the end of term main stage performance. 

Talented young soloists and conductor Benjamin Levy's lithe way with Bizet's melodies make for a musically satisfying Pearl Fishers at the Royal Carré in Amsterdam.

Melbourne Opera's new production of Bizet's The Pearl Fishers succeeds with a tightly packaged, if at times bursting, and visually caressing production.

It is a myth that pearls can be formed from grit and so it proved here, where a vastly underwhelming musical performance sullied a much improved production of Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers. 

Bizet’s name, ever since the early (though by no means instant) success of his last opera and major bestseller Carmen, has become synonymous with the idea of catchy tunes and exotic soundworlds. That’s the composer who is with us most of the time.

Georges Bizet’s first major opera, composed and performed in Paris when he was a mere 25, has the dubious distinction of being both a success and a flop, depending on who is asked. Audiences at the première loved it, but critics panned it.

Georges Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, written some ten years before Carmen, does not enjoy as much recognition as the latter opera. Composed at the age of 25, the opera received harsh criticism from many contemporary critics, although not from Hector Berlioz, who clearly recognised something of Bizet's genius in the work.

Bizet's The Pearl Fishers contains one of opera's best known scenes, the "friendship duet" between the fishermen Zurga and Nadir. The opera's proponents, of which Hector Berlioz was one, praise it for a string of wonderful musical numbers; its critics deride it as a "one aria opera" (or, in the case of the critics at its première in 1863, as "sub Wagner").

Marc Minkowski a dirigé une version mémorable de l'ouvrage de Bizet, avec des Musiciens du Louvre au diapason et un quatuor de chanteurs de haut vol.

La transposition de l'opéra de Bizet dans les mines de charbon stéphanoise par Laurent Fréchuret déçoit, tandis que le plateau vocal connaît des fortunes diverses.

Si la mise en scène, les décors et les costumes déçoivent, le plateau vocal, la direction musicale et les danseurs de cette nouvelle production toulousaine font forte impression.

Szenisch ist der Abend kein großer Wurf, aber dafür kommen Bizets Perlenfischer in Graz musikalisch beglückend nun endlich zur Premiere.

Au côté de quatre solistes de talent, l'Orchestre de Picardie et le Chœur de Chambre de Rouen proposaient à la Philharmonie une version de concert des Pêcheurs de perles.

La reprise des Pêcheurs de perles mis en scène par Bernard Pisani à l'Opéra de Toulon est un plaisir renouvelé. Reinoud Van Mechelen et Jérôme Boutillier brillent dans des rôles très attendus.

L'Opéra Éclaté propose une version rajeunie de l'œuvre de Bizet, sous la direction dynamique de Gaspard Brécourt et dans la belle mise en scène d'Éric Perez et Olivier Desbordes.

Noche de segundo reparto en el que la soprano Olga Kulchynska fue el eje de atención y reclamo en una producción de reality televisivo se implantó en el escenario desterrando la imagen genuina de la Ceilán de Bizet.

El Liceu vuelve a presentar Les pêcheurs de perles 55 años después con una innovadora pero arriesgada puesta en escena de Lotte de Beer.

Pour sa première mise en scène à l'Opéra de Flandre, le FC Bergman joue sur la nostalgie de Pêcheurs de perles placés en maison de retraite. Une approche audacieuse qui ne manque pas d'émouvoir.

L’opéra Les pêcheurs de perles accorde aux voix une palette aux couleurs délicates qui colorent les personnages d’une dimension intime. Malheureusement, cette représentation se démarque par un orchestre national de Lille trop présent et une interprétation parfois monolithique d’une partie des rôles principaux.

Oper? Reality Show? Lotte de Beer inszeniert Bizets Perlenfischer als herrliche Dschungelcamp-Satire. Diana Damrau, Dmitry Korchak und Nathan Gunn beeindrucken unter der Leitung von Jean-Christophe Spinosi.