Organization

Festival d'Aix en Provence

Licht ontwerper

James Farnecombe

Revival director

Gilles Rico

Dirigent

Kazushi Ōno

Regisseur

Katie Mitchell

Set designer

Lizzie Clachan

Kostuum ontwerper

Chloe Lamford

James Farncombe

Choreograaf

Joseph Alford

Zanger

Baritone

Bernard Richter

Pelléas

Soprano

Karen Vourc'h

Mélisande

Bass-baritone

Laurent Naouri

Golaud

Bass

Hidekazu Tsumaya

Arkel

Child vocalist

Kanae Kushima

Yniold

Teppei Kono

Un Médecin

Mezzo-soprano

Rié Hamada

Geneviève

New National Theatre Tokyo

Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa

Others

New National Theatre Chorus

Orchestra

Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra

Frans

Pelléas et Mélisande -  (Pelléas en Mélisande)

Tokio

Japan

New National Theatre

Opera Palace

Pelléas et Mélisande Debussy

Public

Private

Pelléas en Mélisande

Engels

Japans

Approved

"Pelléas et Mélisande" is the only opera by French impressionist composer Claude Achille DEBUSSY. DEBUSSY strove to produce a uniquely French opera. To this end he both incorporated the leitmotiv technique and, using a unique musical syntax, composed music rich in colour and contrast to express the vitality of nature - light, water, mist and wind - as depicted in the play by Maurice MAETERLINCK. DEBUSSY made the music fuse with the meter of the French language, and used restraint in his depictions of the suffering and rising emotions of the characters on stage for a richly textured portrayal. This tale of love and hatred in an impenetrable fortress is told with mystery, symbolism and an air of tension, the drama cleansed at the end with the serenity of the postlude.
The production is directed by Katie MITCHELL, director of many plays and operas in Britain and highly acclaimed for the sense of reality she achieves with her distinctive sensibilities and rationale. First performed at the 2016 Aix-en-Provence Festival, this production of "Pelléas et Mélisande" is a modern retelling of the drama as the dream of a woman who has come into a household. Conducting is ONO Kazushi, the Artistic Director of Opera of the NNTT. The young lovers Pelléas and Mélisande will be performed by Bernard RICHTER and Karen VOURC'H, both made great success in the roles. Golaud is performed by the veteran French baritone Laurent NAOURI, who also performed in the Aix-de-Provence.

English

Voorstellingscredits (Cast & Productieteam )

Cast

Productieteam

Ensemble

Co-producent