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"Pelleas et Melisande" - From October 2 to 9

From October 2 to 9 Opera
Debussy back twenty-five years
with "Pelleas et Melisande"
founder of the opera of the twentieth century

Gianluigi Gelmetti
DIRECTED THE ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS OF TEATRO

Scene of the sculptor Anish Kapoor,
directed by Pierre Audi and lighting by Jean Kalman

back after five decades Rome in the work of the watershed of the opera 900: Pelleas et Melisande, the key title of symbolism, one music drama completed by Claude Debussy, goes on stage 2 to 9 October at the Teatro dell'Opera. Gianluigi Gelmetti is to conduct the Orchestra for a decade entrusted to his hands and Chorus prepared by Andrea Giorgi, in co-production a year ago he opened the season at the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. The exhibition bears the stamp of the original three strong personalities on the world stage: the Franco-Lebanese director Pierre Audi, the sculptor Anish Kapoor and Anglo-Indian, the Parisian Jean Kalman, a maker of expensive lights to masters such as Brook, Carsen and Stein. The vision of the audience is captured by a huge red object that changes its position and thanks to a turntable during the course of history, multiplying sensuality and magic, and from which the performers enter and exit. Kapoor's work - the tribute in London these days with a large retrospective exhibition of the homage due to one of the most significant contemporary visual artists - is an attractive more for a performance-event: Pelléas et Mélisande was seen in the Capitoline temple in fact seven times in a century.
The opera in five acts and twelve paintings debuted at the Opéra Comique in Paris on April 30, 1902: it was a performance marked by the bitter dispute incited by the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck, whose eponymous prose with some cut Debussy became the booklet, offended by a refusal to choose his former partner as a soprano role. It was not much better then 28 March 1909 in the first performance at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome, recalled for the final whistle and shouting continued. But elsewhere Pelleas et Melisande had become an alcoholic acclaimed, overcoming the opposition of the most fanatical Wagnerian.
costumes by Patrick Kinmonth. Didier Kerstens works director, Agostino Angelini to the design of the lights. Entries ranking Italian and international scene, including an imposing three main roles Monica Pods and Nathalie Manfrino, Massimiliano Gagliardo and Jean-François Lapointe, Enzo Capuano and Jean-Philippe Lafont. Seven plays, in the original language sovratitoli. The "first" Friday, October 2 at 20:30 (subscribers shift A), Saturday 3 to 18 (session D), Sunday 4 to 17 (session E), Tuesday, 6 (session B), Wednesday, 7 (non-subscription), Thursday, 8 ( C round) and Friday 9 (non-subscription) always 20.30.
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