opera notebook
some operas I have seen on videoClaude Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande (1902)
libretto by Maurice Maeterlinck
Opéra National de Paris, 2025
- Conductor: Antonello Manacorda
- Director: Wajdi Mouawad
- Set Designer: Emmanuel Clolus
- Pelléas: Huw Montague Rendall
- Mélisande: Sabine Devieilhe
- Golaud: Gordon Bintner
- Geneviève: Sophie Koch
- Arkel: Jean Teitgen
- Yniold: Anne-Blanche Trillaud Ruggeri
This is an emotionally intense production of Pelléas et Mélisande, and a very affecting one. The mood is in sharp contrast to Robert Wilson's earlier Paris production. Characters touch forcefully, and bare their emotions in what you'd have to call a more "operatic" way; it all works well.