The Pearl Fishers is a 1963 Australian television production based on the opera Les pêcheurs de perles by Georges Bizet.[2] It was filmed in Sydney at the ABC'sGore Hill studios and marked the one hundredth anniversary of the first performance of the opera.[3]
Keene and Jackson appear in the production, but not McDonald; Edward Brayshaw mimes and lip-synchs the role of Nadir.[3]
Receptionedit
The critic from the Sydney Morning Herald wrote that, "it may be that producer William Stirling doubted that the music could hold the viewers' interest should the action flag for a moment, for his sets were distractingly cluttered up at times. He also used such film techniques as flashbacks, and in the love duel the closeup was excessive. The flames in which Ronal Jackson expired at the end of the opera were a further innovation; such an impressively elaborate production obviously cried out for colour television."[4]
^"Behind the Set View of a TV production". The Age. 23 May 1963. p. 11.
^Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
^ abJames, Dawn (10 April 1963). "Spine-Tingling Opera". Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 30, no. 45. Australia. p. 19. Retrieved 25 November 2017 – via Trove, National Library of Australia.
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