Marc Minkowski and Laurent Pelly: “Humanity has never needed opera so much”

2022-06-15T17:57:27.185Z

INTERVIEW - More than twenty years after the creation of Platée at the Palais Garnier, the chef and the director are resuming their mythical production of Rameau in situ. Before meeting for a new Périchole in November. Meet.

Two years after their first collaboration for

Orphée aux Enfers

and a year before their unforgettable

Belle Hélène

, the duo formed by conductor Marc Minkowski and director Laurent Pelly tackled

Platée,

by Rameau.

Created in 1999, this timeless show, enhanced by the mischievous sets by Chantal Thomas and the whimsical costumes by Pelly, has survived the ages without losing its freshness and its bittersweet poetry.

To discover

Find all the results of the legislative elections
Discover the “Best of the Goncourt Prize” collection

Read also

Christian Lacroix: “Offenbach created a myth”

On the eve of their sixth revival of the show on the Garnier stage, the two men look back on twenty-five years of collaboration, marked in large part by the world of Offenbach, which they will find at the start of next season in a new

Périchole

, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.

LE FIGARO.

- More than twenty years after the creation of your

Platée
, is the magic intact?

Marc MINKOWSKY.

This is the challenge and the beauty of the exercise.

This

Platée

marked the generations and knew many changes of interpreters.

You must without…

This article is for subscribers only.