The Dallas Opera Orchestra was the star of the opera’s first Texas staging.
Cast of Dallas Opera production of Debussy's 'Pelléas et Mélisande' in dress rehearsal Nov. 6, 2024 at Winspear Opera House. L to R, Nicolas Courjal , Benjamin Bjorklund , Katharine Goeldner , Edward Nelson , Willard White and Lauren Snouffer .It’s one of the greatest operas of the 20th century, with sensuously multicolored music by Claude Debussy and a psychologically probing libretto by the Belgian symbolist writer Maurice Maeterlinck.
A co-production with the Bavarian State Opera, introduced last summer in Munich, the Dallas Opera’s version transposes the opera from the libretto’s mythic “Allemonde” to an aristocratic turn-of-the-20th-century household. The libretto specifies a forest, a castle with tower and a spooky crypt, but Dutch stage director Jetske Mijnssen keeps the action indoors. The revival director here is Kathleen Smith Belcher.
The libretto makes much of contrasts of light and dark, but Andrew May realizes Bernd Purkrabek’s original lighting design with scarcely varied side lighting — arresting as it is. One needn’t be a slave to literalness, but we need some contrast between nature and the castle’s dank oppression, not just interior scenes. And Pelléas here somehow survives Golaud’s mortal wound.is a creative masterpiece, but its subtlety makes it relatively rare even in top opera houses.
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