Pelleas et Melisande

Composer: Debussy, Claude

Librettist/Text Author: Maeterlinck, Maurice

Conductor: Altinoglu, Alain

Orchestra: Philharmonia Zurich

Chorus: Zusatzchor Opernhaus Zurich

Chorus Master: Hammerli, Jurg

Chorus: SoprAlti der Oper Zurich

Chorus Master: Hammerli, Jurg

A Doctor: Dekeyser, Charles

Arkel: Sherratt, Brindley

Genevieve: Naef, Yvonne

Golaud: Ketelsen, Kyle

Melisande: Winters, Corinne

Pelleas: Imbrailo, Jacques

Pelleas's Father: Mayr, Reinhard

Yniold: Goritz, Damien

Costume Designer: Zaytseva, Elena

Lighting Designer: Filshtinsky, Gleb

Stage Director: Tcherniakov, Dmitri

Television Director: Sommer, Andy

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Date of Production: 13-09-2019

Venue: Zurich Opera House

Playing Time: 02:44:58

Catalogue Number: BAC157

UPC: 3760115301573

Libretto

Pelleas et Melisande EN

Synopsis

Pelleas et Melisande

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Pelleas et Melisande from the Opernhaus Zurich should be remembered as one of Dmitri Tcherniakov's most innovative production. Forget about the fountains, the caverns, the forest, the castles and the towers: here, the density of Maurice Maeterlinck's and Claude Debussy's symbolism becomes the starting point of an analytical journey into the human mind : it is now the psychoanalyst, "doctor" Golaud, who has to uncover the secrets of Melisande, an unfortunate and traumatized creature he brings home, and whose silence and puzzling attitude eventually bring him on the verge of insanity.

But the production is also the occasion for a reunion between Dmitri Tcherniakov and French conductor Alain Altinoglu, after the tremendous success of the Tchaikovsky dyptich Iolanta / The Nutcracker - arguably one of the most successful titles of the Bel Air Classiques catalogue. Their artistic complicity is intact: the precise, analytical but also nuanced and poetic baton of Altinoglu proves to be the best possible response to Tcherniakov's subtle exploration of the human psychology. Corinne Winters, as Melisande, Jacques Imbrailo, as Pelleas, and especially Kyle Ketelsen, as Golaud, embody with an incandescent realism these characters plagued by a form of evil and violence that we will never quite understand.