The Dallas Opera closes its 2021-22 season with Bizet’s “The Pearl Fishers.” The production, from San Diego Opera, will be presented between April 2 and 10, 2022, and will star René Barbera as Nadir, Morris Robinson as Nourabad, Alfredo Daza as Zurga, and Joyce El-Khoury as Leïla. In a statement, Ian Derrer, Kern Wildenthal General Director and CEO said, “The {…}

San Francisco’s Opera Parallèle is set to present the West Coast premiere of composer Lembit Beecher and librettist Hannah Moscovitch’s “Sophia’s Forest.” The work, which will be performed four times from Feb. 24 to Feb. 26 at Grace Cathedral, is an opera in one act that relates the story of a young girl, Sophia, who has recently immigrated to the {…}