Last season the Virginia Opera positioned itself as the local opera company most willing to challenge its audiences. It had accomplished this in the wake of a leadership schism in 2011, when founding ...

Houston Grand Opera’s current production of “The Pearl Fishers” — a brightly colored, musically enthralling love triangle between two old friends and a Brahmin priestess in long-ago Ceylon — ...

Can’t wait to check out 'Bizet: The Pearl Fishers' on your favorite screen? Here are streaming services and cable providers with rental, purchase, and subscription options, so you can choose your ...

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In a season otherwise filled with blockbusters (MADAME BUTTERFLY, THE BARBER OF SEVILLE) and a company premiere (FLIGHT), it initially seems an odd choice to close out their first full season since ...

The psychedelic palm trees looming onstage are only the first marker that Houston Grand Opera’s current production of “The Pearl Fishers” belongs in the realm of pure fantasy. No more, no less.

Georges Bizet was just 24 when he wrote his first full-scale opera. He soon wished that he hadn’t. The Pearl Fishers, wrote one caustic Parisian critic, had “neither fishermen in the libretto nor ...

“The Pearl Fishers” takes place in a time when Sri Lanka was known as Ceylon, a great source of natural pearls. The story centers on two friends, Zurga, the king of the pearl fishers, and Nadir, both ...

“Die Walkure” is the show you really need to catch at Lyric Opera at the moment. But if the prospect of devoting five hours of your busy life to Wagner is daunting, you can always treat yourself to ...