We've just taken two days off from rehearsals - we have a forthcoming education production of Schubert's utterly engaging Die Verschworenen at Queen's College, London - to attend the lively preview performance of Le pescatrici at the Vienna Kammeroper.  As unaccountably there is no available recording of this opera, this was our first opportunity to hear the whole piece through.  It certainly reinforced our conviction that this is an opera which both delights the ear and relates an entertaining story with deft wit and charm.  Like us, the Wiener Kammeroper specialize in small-scale rarities - in the past they have also performed L'infedeltà delusa, a work which we toured a couple of years ago.  Thursday's Pescatrici, in Kammeroper's attractive 250-seater theatre in the heart of old (and very cold!) Vienna, was given as an education preview.  With its vivacity and good humour, it was an ideal operatic introduction for schoolchildren - everyone especially loved the moment in Act 3 when shiny new iPhones were presented to the overjoyed 'fisherwomen' by their disguised lovers.  You can read Wienner Kammeroper's own blog of this fresh and appealing production at http://wienerkammeroper.blogspot.com/.