op.
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.