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A dark and brooding Pelléas et Mélisande at the Komische Oper

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“Dominik Köninger’s velvet smooth baritone is beguiling as the poetic loser Pelléas”
Reviewed at Komische Oper Berlin, Berlin on 15 October 2017
Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande
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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