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  • Pelléas et Mélisande: Opéra National de Paris, © Photo: Elisa Haberer/ONP
    Pelléas et Mélisande: Opéra National de Paris, © Photo: Elisa Haberer/ONP
  • Pelléas et Mélisande: Opéra National de Paris, © Photo: Elisa Haberer/ONP
    Pelléas et Mélisande: Opéra National de Paris, © Photo: Elisa Haberer/ONP
  • Pelléas et Mélisande: Opéra National de Paris, © Photo: Elisa Haberer/ONP
    Pelléas et Mélisande: Opéra National de Paris, © Photo: Elisa Haberer/ONP
  • Pelléas et Mélisande: Opéra National de Paris, © Photo: Elisa Haberer/ONP
    Pelléas et Mélisande: Opéra National de Paris, © Photo: Elisa Haberer/ONP
  • Pelléas et Mélisande: Opéra National de Paris, © Photo: Elisa Haberer/ONP
    Pelléas et Mélisande: Opéra National de Paris, © Photo: Elisa Haberer/ONP

Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande: Opéra National de Paris

About the Event

Debussy's story of impossible love between Pelléas and Mélisande comes forth in a refined and minimalistic production by Bob Wilson, one of the world’s foremost theater and visual artists.

Based on Maurice Maeterlinck’s symbolist play, Pelléas et Mélisande tells the drama of impossible love in an enigmatic and timeless world. Bob Wilson deliberately left the stage denuded, creating an immaculate environment both blindingly luminous and oppressive in order to enhance the struggle of the two souls in love.

In French, with French and English surtitles

Cast / Production

Conductor: Philippe Jordan
Director: Robert Wilson
Set design: Robert Wilson
Costume design: Frida Parmeggiani
Lighting design: Heinrich Brunke and Robert Wilson
Dramaturgy: Holm Keller
Co‐stage director: Giuseppe Frigeni
Set design collaboration: Stephanie Engeln
Chorus master: Alessandro Di Stefano

Pelléas: Étienne Dupuis
Golaud: Luca Pisaroni
Arkel: Franz‑Josef Selig
Doctor, Shepherd: Thomas Dear
Mélisande: Elena Tsallagova
Geneviève: Anna Larsson
The young Yniold: Jodie Devos

Coproduction with the Salzburger Festspiele
Orchestra and Choruses of the Opéra national de Paris

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