Name: Pelléas et Mélisande
Start: 2024-08-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-09-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Estonian National Opera

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Estonian National Opera

Conductor

Arvo Volmer

Kaspar Mänd

Stage director

Albert-André Lheureux

Costume designer

Liina Keevallik

Lighting designer

Rasmus Rembel

Chorus master

Heli Jürgenson

Baritone

Samy Camps

Pelleas

Heldur Harry Põlda

Soprano

Karis Trass

Melisande

Helen Lokuta

Bass-baritone

Raiko Raalik

Golaud

Stephan Loges

Mezzo-soprano

Aule Urb

Genevieve

Juuli Lill

Bass

Julien Véronèse

Arkel

Priit Volmer

Child vocalist

Merit Kraav

Yniold

Elena Brazhnyk

Carol Männamets

Mart Laur

Shepherd

Kim Sargsyan

Doctor

French

Pelléas et Mélisande -  (Pelléas and Mélisande)

Tallinn

Estonia

Pelléas et Mélisande Debussy

Public

Private

Pelléas and Mélisande

Paul Koneri

English

Estonian

Approved

20. sajandi koidikul, tundmatute maailmade uuringutele kalduva sümbolismiajastu õitseajal, kirjutab Maurice Maeterlinck, Nobeli kirjanduspreemia laureaat, li...

Albert-André Lheureux: “It is time that Debussy’s once revolutionary masterpiece be brought to the Estonian audiences. “Pelléas et Mélisande” is as if a magic ritual that awakens a secret world inside and around us.

At the dawn of the 20th century, the flourishing age of symbolism that favours investigation of unknown worlds, Maurice Maeterlinck, the winner of the Nobel Literature Prize wrote a mysterious play “Pelléas et Mélisande” in addition to the famous “The Blue Bird”. Immediately, Claude Debussy saw in it a subject for an opera…

The amazing blend of text and music through musical lights and shadows makes it only vaguely possible to apprehend the secret being of a human. What is the meaning of our life, the journey of our soul, our the meaning of doubts and search for truth? Where is the truth? Everyone searches for it in their own way.

This story shows us what the innocent eye of a child or the child himself catches. He will drag us by hand into the fairy-tale, where the good or the bad spirits seem to choose our paths.

Let the unique blend of music and text take us with them and discover our surroundings like a child who is presented with a world where to look for and find himself. It is a passionate story of poetic love, chained to the torture chair by jealousy, doubt and violence.

Exceptional beauty charms us. In this exclusive piece it reflects in the whirlwind of emotions, while finding its way through the dense forest of our contradictory thoughts”.

Performed in French with subtitles in Estonian and English.

Recommended age 12+

Pelléas and Mélisande by Debussy, Sat 14 Sep 2024, From (2024/2024), Directed by Albert-André Lheureux,, Conductor Arvo Volmer, Kaspar Mänd, Estonian National Opera, Tallinn, Estonia

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