Palm Beach Opera's 'Pearl Fishers' offers bold colors, solid voices

Palm Beach Opera's rendering of Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers" delivers visually and musically, with several standout ...
Hawk Central

Fashion icon Zandra Rhodes designs Palm Beach Opera's 'Pearl Fishers'

Palm Beach Opera is staging "The Pearl Fishers" for the first time in its 65-year history. Sets and costumes for the production were designed by British fashion icon Dame Zandra Rhodes. The opera, set ...
OperaWire

Q & A: Francesca Pia Vitale on ‘The Pearl Fishers,’ U.S. Debut & Dream Roles

Included in the TOP TEN rising stars of opera by OperaWire in 2022, soprano Francesca Pia Vitale has won numerous international awards after graduating in 2020 from the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in ...
Time

Music: Bizet Before Carmen

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 ...