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Opera: Pelléas et Mélisande

Estonian National Opera HouseEstonia pst 4, Tallinn, Harju, 10148, Estland
Datum/Zeit in Tallinn Zeitzone
Mittwoch 02 Dezember 202619:00
Freitag 04 Dezember 202619:00
Darsteller
Estonian National Opera
Arvo VolmerMusikalische Leitung
Albert-André LheureuxRegie
Liina KeevallikBühnenbild
Rasmus RembelLicht
Estonian National Opera Orchestra
Estonian National Opera Choir
Martin TrudnikovChorleitung
Helen LokutaMezzosopranMélisande
Karis TrassMezzosopranMélisande
Heldur Harry PõldaTenorPelléas
Samy CampsTenorPelléas
Raiko RaalikBassGolaud
Stephan LogesBassbaritonGolaud
Julien VéronèseBassbaritonArkel
Priit VolmerBassArkel
Juuli LillMezzosopranGeneviève
Aule UrbMezzosopranGeneviève
Merit KraavSopranYniold
Elena BrazhnykSopranYniold
Carol MännametsSopranYniold
Kim SargsyanBaritonHirte, ein Arzt
Mart LaurBassHirte, ein Arzt

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”.