Pelléas et Mélisande


















music: Claude Debussy
libretto: Maurice Maeterlinck
singers: Yanhua Liu
Thomas Stimmel
Robert Elibay – Hartog
piano: Yonatan Cohen
costumes: Caroline Niestroy
graphics: Anna Niestroy
December 2012
Sternchen Berlin
Chasing in the deep woods on a cold dark winter day, Golaud meets the mysterious Mélisande. Where does she come from? What is she doing here? What sort of secret is she hiding? Golaud brings her to his castle in Allemonde and they marry. Pelléas, Golaud’s half- brother, gets obsessed with the mysterious beauty. A complicated story of a ménage à trois begins. Pelléas wants to finally put an end to the torment and makes a ghastly decision.
The staging of some scenes of this masterpiece took place in a small club in the heart of Berlin. I used its huge windows and a careful lighting concept to transform it into a forest, to a castle, to a prison…