Pelléas et Mélisande

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Pelléas et Mélisande (2025)

Directed by François Roussillon

· 2h 59m

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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Cast

Sabine Devieilhe Mélisande Huw Montague Rendall Pelléas
G
Gordon Bintner Golaud
J
Jean Teitgen Arkel Sophie Koch Geneviève
A
Amin Ahangaran A doctor
A
Anne-Blanche Trillaud Ruggeri Yniold (Soloist of Maîtrise de Radio France)

Crew

Director
François Roussillon

Details

Release date
2025-04-20
Runtime
2h 59m
Original language
EN