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The Pearl Fishers

Georges Bizet

Opéra National de Lorraine

director
Emmanuelle Bastet

conductor
Rani Calderon

sets and costumes
Tim Northam

lighting
François Thouret

with
Vannina Santoni, Edgardo Rocha, Jean-François Lapointe, Jean Teitgen

photos
Frédéric Mercenier

A sheet of water overflows intermittently onto the raked floor. The protagonists play with it, the lighting too. In a degraded world of violent make do and broken down clothes, Leïla seems to step out of the sky.