• Season 2022-2023
  • Opera
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  • Opera

Mélisande

Based on Pelléas et Mélisande by M. Maeterlinck and C. Debussy

  • World Première
  • Dates Feb 27 - Mar 5, 2023
  • Rates From 13€ to 26€
  • Location Théâtre de La Renaissance - Oullins
  • Running Time 1h30 without an interval

In a few words

A new Mélisande! Richard Brunel and composer Florent Hubert have gone back to the original inspiration for Maeterlinck's play and Claude Debussy's opera to take a fresh look at this emblematic and unyielding heroine, played by the dazzling Judith Chemla, in search of freedom.

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    Extrait - Mélisande

Introductory

Richard Brunel, author and director of this adaptation, has worked with composer Florent Hubert to create a new work based on Maeterlinck's play and Claude Debussy's opera. Four singer-actors, including the brilliant Judith Chemla as Mélisande, and four instrumentalists, and you have the jewel of French symbolism and Debussy's only opera reduced to its essence, stripped down to its essentials.
A bold undertaking, but a legitimate one: after all, was it not Debussy's ambition to free opera from its artifice, mannerisms and clichés? We are almost there: a woman about whom we know nothing, torn between two men, a woman who will not give in, a story of jealousy, passion and revolt that ends in death, although as a choice, defying convention.

Language

In French

Instrumental Ensemble
Percussion: Yi-Ping Yang, Harp: Marion Sicouly, Accordion: Sven Riondet, Cello: Nicolas Seigle

Based on Pelléas et Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck and Claude Debussy
New production

Co-production between the Lyon Opera and MC2: Grenoble
Co-directed with Théâtre de La Renaissance – Oullins Lyon Métropole

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