Bizet's opera set to thrill fans in Beijing
By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2019-05-09 07:39
French composer Georges Bizet's three-act opera Les Pecheurs de Perles, or The Pearl Fishers, will make its debut in China with five shows from May 15 to 19 at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing.
The opera, coproduced by the NCPA and the Staatsoper Berlin and directed by Oscar-nominated German filmmaker Wim Wenders, premiered at the Staatsoper Berlin in June 2017.
According to Zhao Tiechun, the vice-president of the NCPA, Les Pecheurs de Perles is the first collaboration between the NCPA and the Staatsoper Berlin. And it is the second Bizet opera that the NCPA has produced.
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