Pelléas et Mélisande (2025)
In Wajdi Mouawad's "brilliantly involving" new Paris Opera production of Debussy's only opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, French soprano Sabine Devieilhe is "as near to perfection as one might wish for: a voice of exquisite beauty and sung as if the role [of Mélisande] had been written especially for her" (Opera Today) and Huw Montague Rendall, as Pelléas, projects a "faultless French phrasing, endowing [Pelléas] with the perfect blend of freshness and candor" (Bachtrack). Based on the classic symbolist play by Maurice Maeterlinck that the composer found to contain "far more humanity" than realism, Pelléas et Mélisande sets a tragic love triangle against some of Debussy's most soaringly dramatic music, all its Wagnerian flourishes brought out by Antonello Manacorda and the Paris Opera Orchestra.
Director: François Roussillon
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Sabine Devieilhe as Mélisande |
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Huw Montague Rendall as Pelléas |
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Gordon Bintner as Golaud |
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Jean Teitgen as Arkel |
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Sophie Koch as Geneviève |
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Amin Ahangaran as A doctor |
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Anne-Blanche Trillaud Ruggeri as Yniold (Soloist of Maîtrise de Radio France) |
| Directing | François Roussillon | Director |
| Directing | Wajdi Mouawad | Stage Director |
| Art | Emmanuel Clolus | Set Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Emmanuelle Thomas | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Cécile Kretschmar | Makeup & Hair |
| Lighting | Éric Champoux | Lighting Design |
| Visual Effects | Stéphanie Jasmine | Effects Supervisor |
| Crew | Charlotte Farce | Dramaturgy |
| Sound | Antonello Manacorda | Conductor |
