Unfinished operas, after two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe - Music Claude Debussy
Amphithéâtre de l’Opéra Bastille, Opéra National de Paris, 2012
CAST
Musical director: Jeff Cohen
Staging and videos: Jean-Philippe Clarac & Olivier Deloeuil
Set and Lighting design: Rick Martin
Philipp Addis, Valérie Condoluci, Alexandre Duhamel, Damien Pass, Alexandre Pavloff, de la Comédie Française
PRODUCTION
Opéra National de Paris (adapted from the OFNY production)
In partnership with Clarac-Deloeuil > le lab
ABOUT
This program unites artistic themes common to Debussy and Poe, including their quintessential romantic taste for neurotic characters, strange settings, and the macabre. The entire production takes place in Roderick Usher’s private library. As the story unfolds, the impressive library, initially pristine and neat, slowly “dies” along with the two Usher siblings.
