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The Pearl Fishers

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The London ColiseumSt. Martin's Lane, London, Greater London, WC2N 4ES, United Kingdom

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Programme

Bizet, Georges (1838-1875)

Les Pêcheurs de perles

Libretto by Eugène Cormon, Michel Carré

Performers

English National Opera
Rory Macdonald	Conductor
Penny Woolcock	Director
Alfie Boe	Tenor	Nadir

Reviews of Les Pêcheurs de perles directed by Penny Woolcock

***11

Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, November 2018

*****

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, October 2017

***11

The London Coliseum, October 2016

*****

Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, January 2016

**111

The London Coliseum, June 2014

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The Pearl Fishers at the ENO

David Karlin, 5th June

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").