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Pelléas et Mélisande

Claude Debussy

Angers Nantes Opéra

director
Emmanuelle Bastet

conductor
Daniel Kawka

sets and costumes
Tim Northam

lighting
François Thouret

with
Armando Noguera, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Jean-François Lapointe, Wolfgang Schöne, Cornelia Onciolu, Chloé Briot, Frédéric Caton

photos
Jef Rabillon

Inspired by Hitchcock's closed in spaces, are the unavowed secrets of the family concealed in the drawers and cupboards which line the walls. The grotto, the fountain, the tower are mental escapes. The costume tones stand out or blend into the house. Once inside this place we never leave it.