ABOUT THE EVENT

The Paris Opera presents Claude Debussy's lyric drama, "Pelléas et Mélisande", in a production by Robert Wilson.

Before discovering Maeterlinck's play, Debussy said of the opera he dreamt of composing: "Music begins when words are powerless to express; music is perfect for the inexpressible; I would like it to seem to come out of the shadows and, at times, to go back, always discreet."

Thanks to Maeterlinck's characters, to his highly precise and very vague language, so cruel and so apt, Debussy was able to realise the drama of his dreams. A fateful enchantment holds sway over the castle of Allemonde. No sooner does Golaud find Mélisande in the forest and bring her to the kingdom of his ancestors than they find themselves unable to leave, chained to a place that belongs, however, nowhere. The castle is racked by desolation and decay. The park seems to die under the weight of invisible darkness. The sun barely manages to break through and cast light on the miraculous yet abandoned fountain which used to heal the eyes of the blind and whose waters appear to be bottomless. From the walls one can see the sea, and, at last, the clear sky. But there are also underground tunnels leading to the centre of the earth, suddenly reminding us that we are forever walking over chasms.

Debussy's masterpiece is conducted for the first time by Philippe Jordan.

In French language.

Philippe Jordan, Conductor
Robert Wilson, Stage director and sets
Frida Parmeggiani, Costumes
Heinrich Brunke, Robert Wilson, Lighting
Holm Keller, Dramaturgy
Giuseppe Frigeni, Co-stage director
Stephanie Engeln, Collaboration on sets
Alessandro Di Stefano, Chorus master

Stéphane Degout, Pelléas
Vincent Le Texier, Golaud
Franz Josef Selig, Arkel 

Jérôme Varnier, Un Médecin, Le Berger 

Elena Tsallagova, Mélisande 

Anne Sofie Von Otter, Geneviève

Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine / Paris Opera Children's Chorus

Last update 2012 Editorial Team Classictic.com

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