preview for students

Are you a student?

The Opéra de Dijon invites you to enjoy a free preview of Bizet’s opera Les Pêcheurs de Perles on Saturday March 15 at 3pm in the Auditorium!

In addition to the performance, you’ll be offered a drink during the intermission.

^{This event is exclusively for students, who must show proof of enrolment at the door.
Offer limited to one student ticket per person, subject to availability.}

How could Bizet compose Les Pêcheurs de perles without ever having left Paris? Mirabelle Ordinaire, who has been part of the New York Met’s team of stage directors for several years, celebrates this prodigious score by examining the mystery that surrounds the creative act itself.

The young Bizet was only 25 years old and had never ventured beyond the Neuvième arrondissement of Paris when he composed his opera. In this orientalist reverie, the apartment of the composer overlooks the Opéra Garnier then under construction. Invited into the creative intimacy of the poet, we witness the interlacing of these two geneses: the arcades of the Opera become those of a Hindu palace, the water drained for the foundations of the edifice pours into the Indian Ocean, and transports us to Ceylon where Bizet, as Zurga, meets the enchanting Leila.

Libretto Michel Carré and Eugène Cormon

Musical director Pierre Dumoussaud
Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne
Chœur de l’Opéra de Dijon

Stage director Mirabelle Ordinaire
Scenography Philippine Ordinaire
Lighting Nathalie Perrier
Costumes Françoise Raybaud
Choregraphy Sandrine Chapuis
Video Étienne Guiol

Leïla Claire Antoine
Nadir Julien Dran
Zurga Philippe-Nicolas Martin
Nourabad Nathanaël Tavernier
With 3 acrobats

New production of the Opéra de Dijon
Coproduction Opéra de Toulon
Stage sets and costumes created by the workshops of the Opéra de Dijon

^{Illustration © Gilles Aillaud}