English Touring Opera - Pelléas et Mélisande Reviews
28 March 2024

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Pelléas et Mélisande

English Touring Opera


No. of reviews: 14

A strange otherworld
2 Nov 15 / The Opera Critic
ETO's staging is uncomplicated and open to the symbolism of the drama
29 Oct 15 / Opera Journal
Luke-warm Debussy
28 Oct 15 / The Critics' Circle
Uneven dramatically
24 Oct 15 / The Post Bulletin
The love between Jonathan McGovern’s naive Pelleas and Susanna Hurrell’s fragile Melisande is delicately defined
11 Oct 15 / Express
Jonathan Berman expertly conducts Debussy’s enigmatic masterpiece
5 Oct 15 / Financial Times
English Touring Opera’s Pelléas et Mélisande feels pared down in every way
5 Oct 15 / Forum Opéra
Enterprising reduced scale Pelleas
5 Oct 15 / Planet Hugill
This show’s one remediable weakness lies in the pit
3 Oct 15 / Independent
ETO's chamber version of Debussy's enigmatic opera gets most things right
3 Oct 15 / What's on Stage
A brave, deeply affecting achievement
3 Oct 15 / The Guardian
Honourable but over-ambitious
3 Oct 15 / Telegraph
Focused staging
3 Oct 15 / The Stage
Pelléas et Mélisande missing magic at the start of English Touring Opera's season
3 Oct 15 / Bachtrack
Production details
Cast
McGovern, Hurrell, Loges, Johnson, Druiett, Zolezzi
(c) Berman (d) Conway
Performance dates
1, 3 October, 7, 13 November 2015
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