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Pelléas et Mélisande: Paris Opera

About the Event

Debussy's story of impossible love between Pelléas and Mélisande comes forth in an emotional and refined production by Wajdi Mouawad, one of the world’s foremost theater artists.

Based on Maurice Maeterlinck’s symbolist play, Pelléas et Mélisande tells the drama of impossible love in an enigmatic and timeless world.

In French, with French and English surtitles

Cast / Production

Conductor: Antonello Manacorda
Director: Wajdi Mouawad
Set design: Emmanuel Clolus
Costume design: Emmanuelle Thomas
Lighting design: Éric Champoux
Dramaturgy: Charlotte Farcet
Chorus master: Alessandro Di Stefano

Mélisande: Sabine Devieilhe
Pelléas: Huw Montague Rendall
Golaud: Gordon Bintner
Arkel: Jean Teitgen
Doctor, Shepherd: Amin Ahangaran
Geneviève: Sophie Koch

Artiste de la Maîtrise des Hauts‐de‐Seine / Choeur d’enfants de l’Opéra national de Paris

The Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus

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