The Pearl Fishers (1963)

Directed by

William Sterling

Country

Australia

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a television production of Georges Bizet's opera about two men who make a vow of friendship but later both fall for the same woman. It was filmed in a studio setting for a broadcast that celebrated the opera's one hundredth anniversary.

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What happens

The Pearl Fishers is a 1963 Australian television production based on the opera Les pêcheurs de perles by Georges Bizet. It was filmed in Sydney at the ABC's Gore Hill studios and marked the one hundredth anniversary of the first performance of the opera. The Pearl Fishers originally aired on 3 April 1963 in Sydney and later on 29 May 1963. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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