Pelléas et Mélisande
Claude Debussy
[ new production at the onr ]
Lyrical drama in five acts
Libretto by Maurice Maeterlinck
Premiered on 30 April 1902 at the Opéra Comique in Paris
Infos
Mulhouse
La Filature
Strasbourg
Opéra
A Komische Oper Berlin and Nationaltheater Mannheim coproduction
Cast
Musical Director Franck Ollu Stage Director Barrie Kosky Stage Design and Lights Klaus Grünberg Stage Design collaboration Anne Kuhn Costumes Dinah Ehm Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg
Artists
Pelléas Jacques Imbrailo Mélisande Anne-Catherine Gillet Golaud Jean-François Lapointe Geneviève Marie-Ange Todorovitch Arkel Vincent Le Texier Yniold Solistes du Tölzer Knabenchor A doctor, a shepherd Dionysos Idis Chœur de l’Opéra national du Rhin
Presentation
Mélisande appears from nowhere and a mysterious, troubling light penetrates the heart of men. Pelléas and Golaud can't resist this magnet from another world. In her presence, the secluded castle of old Arkel and his family is steeped in an atmosphere redolent with unspeakable desire and irrepressible jealousy. The opera by Claude Debussy (1862-1918) has continued to exert its bewitching power since it was first staged. It is a pure, dark diamond that transformed French music in such a way that for over a hundred years, it has been impossible to compose an opera in French without nodding to this masterpiece.
In French
Overtitled in French, German
