Film
Pelléas et Mélisande
2025 · 2h 59m
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Overview
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.
Cast
Sabine Devieilhe
Mélisande
Huw Montague Rendall
Pelléas
Gordon Bintner
Golaud
Jean Teitgen
Arkel
Sophie Koch
Geneviève
Amin Ahangaran
A doctor
Anne-Blanche Trillaud Ruggeri
Yniold (Soloist of Maîtrise de Radio France)
Crew
- François RoussillonDirector
Media
Details
- Release date
- April 20, 2025
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 2h 59m
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