| Glyndebourne Festival - Pelléas et Mélisande Reviews | 25 April 2024 |
Christina Gansch (Mélisande), John Chest (Pelléas)
Christopher Purves (Golaud), Chloé Briot (Yniold)
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John Chest (Pelléas), Christina Gansch (Mélisande)
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Pelléas et MélisandeGlyndebourne FestivalNo. of reviews: 20 | |
Un cenizo llamado Golaud |
 30 Aug 18 / Mundo Clásico (Spanish) |
Ça crève les yeux |
| 9 Aug 18 / Forum Opéra |
Country matters |
| 31 Jul 18 / parterre box |
Herheim transforms a dream-like play into a claustrophobic domestic drama but his interpretation is relevant |
| 17 Jul 18 / Express |
Stefan Herheim’s production seems to me to be picnicking on the croquet lawn of implausibility |
| 11 Jul 18 / Express |
A concept-heavy new production of Debussy’s masterpiece leaves little to the imagination |
| 8 Jul 18 / The Observer |
Vexing reading of a perplexing opera |
| 5 Jul 18 / The Spectator |
Ideas are laid on so thickly that they undermine the evening’s effectiveness and clarity |
| 5 Jul 18 / Music OMH |
What might have been? |
| 3 Jul 18 / Opera Today |
An operatic locavore consumes the English countryside |
| 3 Jul 18 / New York Times |
Pelléas is Stefan Herheim’s directorial debut at Glyndebourne |
| 3 Jul 18 / Seen and Heard |
Road to nowhere |
| 2 Jul 18 / The Critics' Circle |
Musically enchanting, even if the plot is perversely embroidered |
| 2 Jul 18 / Independent |
Glyndebourne makes itself at home in a bizarre staging of Debussy's only full-length opera |
| 2 Jul 18 / What's on Stage |
Shadows among the organ pipes: an enigmatic Pelléas et Mélisande on location in Glyndebourne |
| 2 Jul 18 / Bachtrack |
Fine singers compromised by eccentricities of this new staging |
| 2 Jul 18 / Telegraph |
Ticciati got the most enthusiastic applause; Herheim’s was more muted, with a few boos |
| 2 Jul 18 / Classical Source |
Crashing symbols overpower doomed lovers |
| 2 Jul 18 / The Guardian |
Debussy’s score becomes merely a soundtrack to a bewilderingly weird spectacle |
| 2 Jul 18 / The Times |
Patches of light from Robin Ticciati's conducting on Stefan Herheim's inexpressive canvas |
| 1 Jul 18 / The Arts Desk |
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Stefan Herheim’s glittering vollisions have changed opera
When his productions fulfill his visions, the viewers can’t ignore what’s happening, Mr. Herheim, one of opera’s most innovative stage directors, said.
When his productions fulfill his visions, the viewers can’t ignore what’s happening, Mr. Herheim, one of opera’s most innovative stage directors, said.
Production details
Cast
Chest, Gansch, Purves, Cargill, Sherratt, Briot, Mofidian, Wallace
(c) Ticciati (d) Herheim
Performance dates
30 June, 4, 7, 11, 21, 23, 26, 29 July, 1, 4, 6, 9 August 2018
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