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Opera: Maeterlink women's megaphone

2021-03-25T17:19:57.338Z


Pélléas and Mélisande in Lille and Ariane and Barbe Bleue in Lyon underline the power of the heroines in this writer who inspired Claude Debussy and Paul Dukas.


Since closing to the public, the lyric theaters have reacted differently.

While the Opéra du Rhin maintained its production rhythm with an energy that commands admiration, the Capitole of Toulouse canceled its shows.

Between these two extremes, we went without news for a long time from the Operas of Lyon and Lille, until they spoke about them again as spring approached, offering us an interesting perspective of two operas taken from Maeterlinck pieces.

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In Lille, it is the director Daniel Jeanneteau who offers his vision of

Pelléas et Mélisande

, a fascinating masterpiece that has never finished revealing its secrets.

Its austere production is maintained in a black and white that only the red of Mélisande's dress breaks up.

The most stimulating idea is to make Mélisande a mirror of Pelléas, unless it is the opposite, shifting the question of the relationships between men and women to study the way in which one projects oneself into the other.

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Source: lefigaro

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