115, 95, 70, 40, 15, 6 €

Pelléas et Mélisande

Claude Debussy

June 14 to 29, 2010

115, 95, 70, 40, 15, 6 €
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DRAME LYRIQUE in five acts by Claude Debussy
Libretto by the composer based on Maurice Maeterlinck’s play
Premiered at the Opéra-Comique on 30 April 1902

Nine years after he discovered the strange harshness of Maeterlinck’s playwriting, where each character essentially represents her/his own tragedy, Debussy composed his musical rendering of Pelléas and Mélisande drama. A drama in which the active silence that formed the dialogue background of the Flemish writer was replaced with a score Stéphane Mallarmé himself had acknowledged as the only one that could express unnamable truths. It took Maeterlinck many years to admit that the musician to whom he surrendered his work had succeeded in making it give forth its unutterable part.

Musical direction, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Stage direction and design, Stéphane Braunschweig

Phillip Addis, Karen Vourc'h, Marc Barrard, Markus Hollop, Nathalie Stutzmann, Dima Bawab, Luc Bertin-Hugault, Pierrick Boisseau

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Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

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Monday, June 14, 2010 - 8:00pm
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 8:00pm
Friday, June 18, 2010 - 8:00pm
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 8:00pm
Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 8:00pm
Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 3:00pm
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 8:00pm
Salle Favart
115, 95, 70, 40, 15, 6 €

Introduction à l'œuvre par Agnès Terrier
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Cast

Musical direction
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Stage direction and design
Stéphane Braunschweig
Costumes
Thibault Vancraenenbroeck
Lighting
Marion Hewlett
Dramaturge
Anne-Françoise Benhamou
Musical assistant
Philipp von Steinaecker
Stage direction collaborator
Georges Gagneré
Stage direction collaborator
Alexandre Dardel (de)
costumes assistant
Agnès Barruel
Lighting assistant
Patrice Lechevallier
Make-up
Karine Guillem
Chef de chant
Nathalie Steinberg
Pianist
Mathieu Pordoy
Choral director
Pieter Jelle de Boer
Pelléas
Phillip Addis
Mélisande
Karen Vourc'h
Golaud
Marc Barrard
Arkel
Markus Hollop
Geneviève
Nathalie Stutzmann
Yniold
Dima Bawab
A physician
Luc Bertin-Hugault
Un shepherd
Pierrick Boisseau

Figurants : M. Max Delor, Mme Agnès Aubé, Mme Martine Demaret, Mme Sophie Dumont
 

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Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

Production, Opéra Comique

Co-producer, Australia Opera (Sydney)

Associate coproducer, Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française

Partnership

With the support of:
Palazzetto Bruzane
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France inter

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