![]() Photo: Ken Howard.Īs for Domingo as conductor, one can’t help stealing glances at him. They don’t find anything, but in this production there are “pearls” for us to find everywhere.Ī scene from LA Opera’s 2017 production of The Pearl Fishers. ![]() Throughout the overture, the swimmers dive down then soar upward. We view them through a scrim with a projection of moving water, so the effect is that we’re under the ocean looking through an enormous window. As we listen to the beautiful overture, dancers dressed as pearl divers fly in, “swimming” down to the stage from somewhere high above and beyond the proscenium arch. From the moment we hear maestro Plácido Domingo’s downbeat, we know we’re in for such an experience. ![]() A string of Pearls from Bizet and LA Opera Review Loren Lester Oct 9, 2017įor most of LA Opera’s production of Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers ( Les pêcheurs de perles), the audience comes to understand why opera has been called “the greatest of all art forms.” In a great opera production like this one, the visual and the aural come together and affect the visceral in a way that can’t be experienced anywhere else. ![]()
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