When the Belgian symbolist writer Maurice Maeterlinck wrote the play Pelléas et Mélisande in 1893, it went on to create a furore. 

This fairytale story by the future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature tells the mysterious story of Mélisande, who is found in a wood by Prince Golaud. Her past remains enveloped in obscurity and her arrival leads to a fatal relationship between her and the half-brothers Golaud, whom she marries, and Pelléas, with whom she develops a spiritual affinity.

Maeterlinck’s intriguing story inspired Debussy to write an opera that was to become a milestone in opera history. Composer Annelies Van Parys and director Wouter Van Looy create an intimate chamber-music version that does full justice to the poetic power of the work. The singers represent the characters in a simple video setting. Flanked by the musicians of the Oxalys Ensemble, they carry the audience along on an inner voyage full of dark images.

 

 

Credits

  • Repetitor • Lies Colman
  • Costumes • Johanna Trudzinski
  • Light • Thomas Verachtert
  • Ensemble • Oxalys Ensemble
  • Yniold • Karel Stas / Matthis Perreaux
  • Arkel • Knut Stiklestad
  • Geneviève • Marie-Noële Vidal
  • Golaud • Andreas Jankowitsch
  • Pelléas • Florian Just
  • Mélisande • Mijke Sekhuis / Diana Higbee
  • Musical direction • Marit Strindlund
  • Text • Maurice Maeterlinck
  • Musical adaptation • Annelies Van Parys
  • Music • Claude Debussy
  • Concept | Direction • Wouter Van Looy
  • Video • Héctor Cruz / Vivian Cruz / Wouter Van Looy
Location Dates Hour  
Festival Consonances (Saint-Nazaire)
0033 2 51 10 18 78
23/9/2012
20:00

AMUZ - Augustinus Muziekcentrum Antwerpen (Antwerpen)
+32 3 202 46 60
http://www.amuz.be
29/9/2012
21:00

Opéra de Dijon (Dijon)
+33 3 80 48 82 82
www.opera-dijon.fr
13/10/2012
14/10/2012
20:00
15:00


Flagey (Bruxelles)
+32 2 641 10 10
www.flagey.be
19/10/2012
20:15

Bergen Nasjonale Opera (Bergen)
+47 55 21 61 20
www.bno.no
1/11/2012
5/11/2012
6/11/2012
8/11/2012
9/11/2012
19:30
19:00
19:30
19:00
19:00