Only opera by Claude Debussy, Pelléas and Mélisande (created in 1902) tells a story of love, death and domestic violence in three hours of music. Jazz saxophonist and clarinetist Florent Hubert offers a tight rereading of this drama by Maurice Maeterlinck in 1h30 for a handful of musicians and in a refined staging by Richard Brunel, the current director of the Opéra de Lyon. An atypical lyrical singer, actress Judith Chemla gives body to Mélisande in this adaptation which bears her name well. Carmen Lunsmann discovered her at the Bouffes du Nord theater in Paris.
Mélisande, freely adapted from Debussy’s opera, at the Bouffes du Nord theater in Paris until March 19, 2023.