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Pelléas et Mélisande: Kosky's sleep-talking, nightmare at Komische Oper

By Katherine Syer, 16 July 2018
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Reviewed at Komische Oper Berlin, Berlin on 12 July 2018
Programme
Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande
Performers
Komische Oper Berlin
Jordan de Souza, Conductor
Barrie Kosky, Director
Klaus Grünberg, Set Designer
Dinah Ehm, Costume Designer
Nadja Mchantaf, Mélisande
Dominik Köninger, Pelléas
Günter Papendell, Golaud
Jens Larsen, Arkel
Nadine Weissmann, Geneviève
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Katherine Syer
Katherine Syer

Katherine Syer is a Los Angeles-based writer/editor, public scholar, and dramaturg following a teaching career at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and UCLA