Pelléas and Mélisande fact sheet
Music: Claude Debussy
Libretto: adapted by the composer from the play of the same by Maurice Maeterlinck
World premiere: April 30, 1902, at the Salle Favart (Paris, France)
Production new to Los Angeles
LA Opera has previously presented Pelléas and Mélisande in 1995.
Cast:
Pelléas: Will Liverman*
Mélisande: Sydney Mancasola*
Golaud: Kyle Ketelsen
Geneviève: Susan Graham
King Arkel: Ferrucio Furlanetto
Yniold: Kai Edgar*
A Physician: Patrick Blackwell
(Kyle Ketelsen will also sing the offstage lines of the Shepherd.)
Creative team:
Conductor: James Conlon
Production: David McVicar
Stage Director: Leah Hausman*
Set and Costume Designer: Rae Smith*
Lighting Designer: Paule Constable
Projection Designer: Jack Henry James Fox*
Chorus Director: Jeremy Frank
* LA Opera debut
Performance dates and times:
March 25, 2023, at 7:30pm
April 2, 2023, at 2pm
April 5, 2023, at 7:30pm
April 8, 2023, at 7:30pm
April 13, 2023, at 7:30pm
April 16, 2023, at 2pm
Performed in French with English supertitles
Production from Scottish Opera
Estimated running time: three hours and five minutes, including one intermission
Venue: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (135 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, 90012)
All programs, artists and dates are subject to change.
Last updated: February 10, 2023
