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
Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s Devil in the Belfry & Fall of the House of Usher, 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, within the House of Usher. As the story unfolds, the impressive library, initially pristine and neat, slowly “dies” along with the two Usher siblings. By the end of the show, the “damaged” bookcase is almost empty, leaving the dead characters lying on the stage, now an impressive mess of books and lethal literary passions.
