Pelléas et Mélisande

Overview

In this strikingly modern 2016 production from the Zurich Opera House, Tcherniakov transposes the opera’s intrigue from forest and castle to living room and psychiatric office. The love story of the original work remains riveting, but Tcherniakov brings an unexpected psychological element to his mise en scène, with Prince Golaud as a psychiatrist and Mélisande as a young woman suffering from PTSD. You’ve never seen Pelléas like this!

Cast

Jacques Imbrailo

Pelléas

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Corinne Winters

Mélisande

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Kyle Ketelsen

Golaud

Brindley Sherratt

Arkel

Yvonne Naef

Geneviève

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Damien Göritz

Yniold

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Charles Dekeyser

A doctor

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Reinhard Mayr

Pelléas’s father