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Pelléas et Mélisande

Estonian National Opera HouseTallinn, Harju, Estonia
Dates/times in Tallinn time zone
Thursday 13 November 202519:00
Sunday 16 November 202515:00
Performers
Estonian National Opera
Arvo VolmerConductor
Kaspar MändConductor
Albert-André LheureuxDirector
Liina KeevallikSet Designer, Costume Designer
Rasmus RembelLighting Designer
Estonian National Opera Orchestra
Estonian National Opera Choir
Heli JürgensonChoirmaster / chorus director
Karis TrassMezzo-sopranoMélisande
Heldur Harry PõldaTenorPelléas
Raiko RaalikBassGolaud
Priit VolmerBassArkel
Aule UrbMezzo-sopranoGeneviève
Elena BrazhnykSopranoYniold
Tiit KaljundBassShepherd
Mart LaurBassA Doctor

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+

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