New production of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
A co-production with Teater Wielki - Opera Narodowa / Polish National Opera
Watch Pelléas et Mélisande in replay on The Opera Platform:
- I’ve been playing like a child around something whose existence I never suspected... I’ve been playing in a dream around the traps set by fate… Who is it that has woken me so suddenly?
Maurice Maeterlinck, Pelléas et Mélisande (1893)In a forest where he has lost his way, Golaud happens upon Mélisande. He marries her and takes her back home to the family castle. There, Mélisande gets to know Pelléas, Golaud’s half-brother. Something happens between them: “something that is stronger than I”, sighs Mélisande, and something that Golaud will struggle to make sense of – and that will ultimately lead to the tragedy. Set against a backdrop as old as the Western world itself, the symbolist writer Maurice Maeterlinck’s drama of light and shade inspired Claude Debussy to weave an opera steeped in mystery and shot through with silence. Katie Mitchell highlights the dreamlike realism of this masterpiece in a new production that is highly anticipated, not least for its interpretation by the Philharmonia Orchestra under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen. After the journey from Allemonde to Aix, the suffocating beauty of Pelléas et Mélisande remains intact.
*former artists of the Académie
The Fondation Meyer pour le développement culturel et artistique
Ticket prices : 270€, 180€, 150€, 120€, 55€, 30€, 15€ (blind seat)
Youth ticket price : 9€
Children’s discovery offer for all performances, except the opening night
Performance available with season ticket packages and Premium or Prestige offers
3 hours 30 minutes with one interval
Sung in French with French and English surtitles