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Pelléas and Mélisande-Munich Opera Festival
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Premiere at 09. July 2024
Composer Claude Debussy. Text by Maurice Maeterlink.
Drame lyrique in five acts
recommended from 14 years and older
Coprodution with The Dallas Opera
In French. With German and English supertitles. New Production.
Introductions for Pelléas et Mélisande will take place on Jul. 11, 14, 17 and on 22 one hour before the start of each performance in the Gartensaal of the Prinzregententheater.
ABOUT
Dutch director Jetske Mijnssen stages productions at opera houses right across Europe. The psychological intensity of the characters is front and centre in her work, emanating from an intensive investigation of the music. Most recently she has presented Idomeneo, Orlando paladino (Joseph Haydn) and Hippolyte et Aricie (Jean-Philippe Rameau) at the Opernhaus Zürich, Eugen Onegin and Don Carlo at the Oper Graz, L’Orfeo (Claudio Monteverdi) at Det Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen, Katja Kabanowa at the Komische Oper Berlin and Maria Stuarda (Gaetano Donizetti) at De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam. She shares a long-standing collaboration with stage and costume designer Ben Baur. La Traviata was already produced at Theater Bern in 2013 with conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla. The Lithuanian native has been Musical Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra since the 2016/2017 season. In 2022, she made her conductor’s debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper with The Cunning Little Vixen and now returns for Pelléas et Mélisande.
Program and cast
Cast
Conductor
Hannu Lintu
Production
Jetske Mijnssen
Set Design
Ben Baur
Lighting
Bernd Purkrabek
Choreography
Dustin Klein
Dramaturgy
Ariane Bliss
Arkel
Franz-Josef Selig
Geneviève
Sophie Koch
Pelléas
Ben Bliss
Golaud
Christian Gerhaher
Mélisande
Sabine Devieilhe
Yniold
Solist(en) des Tölzer Knabenchors
Ein Arzt
Martin Snell
Ein Hirt
Paweł Horodyski
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper
Prinzregententheater
The Prinzregententheater, or Prince Regent Theatre, is a theatre and opera house located at 12 Prinzregentenplatz in theBavarian city of Munich, Germany.
Initiated by Ernst von Possart, the theatre was built in the Prinzregentenstrasse as a festival hall for the operas of Richard Wagner near an area where a similar project of King Ludwig II had failed some decades before. Named after Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria the building was designed by Max Littmann and opened 21 August 1901 with a production of "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" by Richard Wagner. Like the Bayreuth theatre, the auditorium was designed to Wagner’s specifications, however an amphitheater has replaced the loges.
After the destruction of the Nationaltheater during World War II, the Prinzregententheater housed the Bavarian State Operafrom 1944 to 1963 even though it also suffered damage during the war which was not repaired until 1958. Since its renovation in 1988, the Prinzregententheater, with 1122 seats, has served also for the Bavarian Staatsschauspiel and now houses the Bavarian Theatre Academy founded by August Everding. Another theatre in the building, the Akademietheateror Academy Theatre, seats 300.
The Prince Regent theater is reached very well both by car and by public transportation MVV.
With the MVV (Munich Transport)
Subway: U4 Prinzregentenplatz
Bus: Lines 54, 100 Prince Regent Place
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