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At Opéra Bastille: a Pelléas charged with poetry and mystery

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“A series of miniatures of intense poeticism”
Reviewed at Opéra national de Paris: Opéra Bastille, Paris on 7 February 2015
Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande
Philippe Jordan, Conductor
Robert Wilson, Director
Elena Tsallagova, Mélisande
Julie Mathevet, Yniold
Doris Soffel, Geneviève
Stéphane Degout, Pelléas
Jérôme Varnier, Shepherd
Paul Gay, Golaud
Franz-Josef Selig, Arkel
Pomp meets ping-pong: Nixon in China lands again in Paris
***11
Thomas Adès’ high-flying Exterminating Angel in Paris
*****
Shock and awe in Paris with Bernstein's A Quiet Place
*****
A long road to nowhere for Igor at the Bastille
***11
Les Indes galantes: with Alarcón, Rameau conquers the Bastille
*****
Don Giovanni according to Ivo van Hove: a puritan despite himself?
***11
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