Pelléas et Mélisande: Opera de Paris

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.

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

Stéphane Degout, Pelléas
Paul Gay, Golaud
Franz Josef Selig
Nicolas Cavallier (25, 28 Feb) Arkel
Elena Tsallagova, Mélisande
Doris Soffel, Geneviève
Jérôme Varnier, Un Médecin, Le Berger
Julie Mathevet, Le petit Yniold

Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus