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Georges Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de Perles, performed as part of the Metropolitan Opera's 2015-2016 season captured live in HD on...
Georges Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de Perles, performed as part of the Metropolitan Opera's 2015-2016 season captured live in HD on the New York stage.
"Bizet’s gorgeous opera of lust and longing set in the Far East returns to the Met stage for the first time in 100 years. Soprano Diana Damrau stars as Leïla, the beautiful Hindu priestess pursued by rival pearl divers competing for her hand. Her suitors are tenor Matthew Polenzani and baritone Mariusz Kwiecien, who sing the lilting duet “Au fond du temple saint,” which opera fans know and adore. Director Penny Woolcock explores the timeless themes of pure love, betrayal, and vengeance in a production that vividly creates an undersea world on the stage of the Met. Conductor Gianandrea Noseda brings his romantic flair to the lush score from the composer of Carmen." (MetOpera)
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"Woolcock’s gentle update of the story from ancient Ceylon to present-day Sri Lanka, or some similar country, maintains the core of the opera but it gives the principal characters a new immediacy that cuts through the perfumed exoticism of the score."
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Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal"A precious harvest."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Inconsistently ravishing."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"A tawdry piece."
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Spectator
Spectator"The meandering old score often rises above the contemporary chaos."
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Financial Times
Financial Times
