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  • So, Leigh, can you, in a few words, describe my character and my role in the story?

  • Golaud is a simple person, so he findslisande very hard to understand.

  • He just wants to meet a nice girl, maybe, and there she is.

  • There must be some spark, there has to be something, in the midst of everything, that

  • Golaud sees.

  • There's got to be some love somewhere, otherwise he just wouldn't care.

  • There is a beautiful woman who is obviously very lovable.

  • Do you find her mysterious from the start?

  • – I think that's one of the main thing that

  • drives the man mad

  • it's the mystery and the elusiveness of the fact that you can't get what it is...

  • I think for all the male characters, the danger, the big draw is the fact that

  • she's mysterious and elusive. For different reasons, we want to know her better.

  • Pelléas is infatuated with her.

  • Golaud wants to have her... I think you're right:

  • the mystery and elusiveness of her is the driving force behind the male characters'

  • obsession with her.

  • Ok, who's next?

  • Oh! This opera has a particularly simplistic libretto,

  • a total refusal of realism. How does that translate into the singing?

  • Answers on a plate, please, to P.O. box, Geneva Opera House.

  • You can tweet, as well.

  • I would see it to be like a play, very natural

  • in the way it is sung, and I think the fact there's so much symbolism in it,

  • which makes it vague. I think it's almost more effective just to

  • play it natural, sing it in a natural way and sincerely.

  • Not trying to sing it in a vague way. The vagueness is there, between the characters

  • and the words anyway, you don't need to sing it in a vague way.

  • If you stay true to the music, the text is so important here.

  • – I'd say, the symbolism is also in the audience.

  • The characters are more involved in day-to-day stuff.

  • Like the fire and Golaud would come back, with the symbolism of fire and the symbolism

  • of walking in the forest. The forest may symbolize other things,

  • but that's not for Golaud to go: "Ah! Freudian nightmare! Nice!

  • Abandonment issues".

  • That's the thing with mystery:

  • we don't want to explain too much to the audience. At least for me, when I play a character like

  • this, I want people to feel differently. Our relationships, it wouldn't be fun if we

  • were told "this is what you are suppose to feel".

  • It's not symbolic if you explain it.

  • It's not.

  • Then it becomes an emoji.

  • This is a good quote!

  • In this production, plastic arts, choreography, and video meet Debussy's opera.

  • What impressed you the most? I like all of it. But that's façade. To me,

  • opera brings everything together. This is bringing even more than usual, because you

  • have dancing as an extra element all the way through. It's not just a little annex with

  • the ballet, to be diverted for 20 minutes.

  • And it's amazing that they are controlling our feelings.

  • They are supporting.

  • They express emotions which we don't necessarily

  • express directly. The choreography fills in.

  • They make it stronger.

  • For me it's the first time I've been doing this with dancers,

  • and I think it's really fascinating.

  • – I'm an old lad, been there, seen it.

  • – I haven't. I like being carried around.

  • – Yeah it's alright for you!

  • In the end scene, it's the most amazing thing!

  • They carry me... And I'm flying. Like Rose in Titanic.

  • So, Jacques, what do you like most about this music? And can you describe Debussy's music

  • in a few words for someone who doesn't know it?

  • I'll answer the second question first: Monet paintings. It's extremely clear, it's a beautiful

  • picture but you can't quite get a hold of the picture in some way. It's impressionist,

  • the same era. It's a beautiful picture, but the lines are slightly faded, I think that's

  • remarquable.

  • Well said.

  • I love the fragility of the music. Each character has extremely fragile music. The music makes

  • the singers fragile, even Arkel. I think the whole dynamic of the piece is that you are

  • forced, in a way, to be fragile to how the music is written. It opens up underlying emotions

  • within the piece and the characters.

  • – I have to say, it's actually one of my favorite operas.

  • I find it so beautiful, and I spent so much time learning it! Seriously, I thought

  • I would never learn it! Because it's complicated, complex.

  • If you had to convince someone who doesn't know opera in general to come and see this

  • production, what would you say?

  • Pretty Norwegian girl being carried around by naked men?

  • That's a drill!

  • I would say the same actually.

  • Sex and death! What every good opera is about.

  • I think it's a beautiful experience to watch

  • this and to listen to this. It's a mystery of an opera, and it's really interesting to

  • hear this music and to see this beautiful staging with great dancing, it's a lot of

  • elements. I think it will attract a younger audience.

  • It's the coming together of some world-leading people in their fields with Sidi Larbi (Cherkaoui)

  • and Damien (Jalet) and the designs of Marina Abramović, and then the music of Debussy.

  • It's quite extraordinary actually.

  • It's a rare occasion to see those forces together.

  • To me, it's quite cool because I have been speaking to a lot of young dancers and art

  • students and they are so intrigued by this. It can opened up for a new audience.

  • And just the music. There is nothing else like it in the operatic repertoire. Pelléas

  • andlisande stands alone, there is no other opera which is similar to it, it's very unique.

  • It's not like any of the Mozart, not in the sense that you have seen one you have seen

  • them all, by any means. But you can recognize Mozart's operas, you can recognize Wagner's operas.

  • But Pelléas etlisande is unique, there's nothing else like it.

  • This is a special time. Can you explain how this pandemic has affected your work?

  • Well, to be honest, we don't know. – No one does. But it's also exciting, huh?

  • Perhaps that's the answer: we don't know how it's going to go! We don't know how it's

  • going to go! So...

  • There may be some streaming, it might be live, it might be recorded...

  • There might be audience...

  • Yes there might be some audience members. Somewhere, sat. Somewhere.

  • Hopefully. It would be amazing, but...

  • The orchestra is going to be spread out on the whole sort of bottom seating area.

  • So if there are any audience members, they might be higher up.

  • The conductor will be very far, which will be quite a challenge

  • to get this already complicated music together.

  • And balanced!

  • The acoustic.

  • It's an evolving thing!

  • We do what we can. We get tested every week, I'm not visiting anyone.

  • It's a strange situation.

  • We go to work, we go home, we're not seeing anyone else.

  •   – Thank god for the internet!

  • Yeah! Thank god for Netflix!

  • And Facetime!

  • And Facetime, true.

So, Leigh, can you, in a few words, describe my character and my role in the story?

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ペレアスとメリザンド(Meet Pelléas, Mélisande and Golaud - Grand Théâtre de Genève)

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    SATORU MORIICHI に公開 2021 年 10 月 09 日
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