Les pêcheurs de perles

This is the first production of a work by Georges Bizet to be staged by the Saint Petersburg Chamber Opera. However, it was not the world-renowned Carmen that director Yuri Alexandrov chose for the company’s first effort, but rather the less famous but equally brilliant Les pêcheurs de perles.

“The Pearl Fishers” was the first opera that the young composer was commissioned to write by the Théâtre Lyrique, the main theatre of the French capital in the middle of the 19th century. It took Bizet only a few months to write the work. After the premiere, Hector Berlioz wrote that the score of the opera "contains a lot of fine expressive moments, full of fire and rich colour". Les pêcheurs de perles fascinates the audience with its melodic richness and dramatic expressiveness.
It is these properties of the musical score, as well as his passion for staging opera rarities, that attracted  Alexandrov, who is known for his extraordinary interpretations of opera plots.

General cast

Conductor

 

Maxim Valkov

 

Nadir

 

Vladislav Mazankin

 

Leïla

 

Olesya Gordeeva

 

Zurga

 

Vladimir Tselebrovszkiy

 

Nourabad

 

Andrei Zemskov

 

Featuring

 

St. Petersburg Chamber Opera's Orchestra and Chorus

Credits

Librettist

 

Michel Carré / Eugène Cormon

 

Director

 

Yuri Alexandrov

 

Set and costume designer

 

Vyacheslav Okunev

 

Lighting designer

 

Irina Vtornikova

 

Video designer

 

Mikhail Ushinin / Daniil Bakalin

 

Chorus director

 

Igor Pototskiy

 

Choreographer

 

Nadezhda Kalinina

 

Voice coach

 

Yana Zubova

Premiere

 

Dec. 19, 2015