Release Date: 2025-04-20
Overview: 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.
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Sabine Devieilhe
as Mélisande
Huw Montague Rendall
as Pelléas
Gordon Bintner
as Golaud
Jean Teitgen
as Arkel
Sophie Koch
as Geneviève
François Roussillon - Director
Wajdi Mouawad - Stage Director
Emmanuel Clolus - Set Designer
Emmanuelle Thomas - Costume Design
Cécile Kretschmar - Makeup & Hair
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