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Opera Review: ‘The Pearl Fishers’

Georges Bizet’s “The Pearl Fishers” is back at the Metropolitan Opera, where the work was last performed was 1916.
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Opera Review: ‘The Pearl Fishers’
Matthew Polenzani as Nadir and Mariusz Kwiecien as Zurga in Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de Perles. Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
Barry Bassis
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NEW YORK—Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” is one of the most popular operas ever written. His earlier work “Les Pêcheurs de Perles” (“The Pearl Fishers”) has languished in relative obscurity, except for the famous duet and a tenor aria.

“The Pearl Fishers” is back at the Metropolitan Opera, where the work was last performed in 1916. Anyone seeing this wonderful staging (a co-production with the English National Opera) will wonder why it took so long to revive the opera.

This early Bizet work deserves to be performed regularly.
Barry Bassis
Barry Bassis
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Barry has been a music, theater, and travel writer for over a decade for various publications, including Epoch Times. He is a voting member of the Drama Desk and the Outer Critics Circle, two organizations of theater critics that give awards at the end of each season. He has also been a member of NATJA (North American Travel Journalists Association)
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