Pelléas et Mélisande

Claude Debussy's production of Maurice Maeterlink's symbolist drama is one of the greatest musical theater successes of all time. The Scala stage recalls stagings of absolute importance: suffice it to recall Victor de Sabata's stagings in 1948 and 1953, Herbert von Karajan's in 1962 or Antoine Vitez's historic staging with Claudio Abbado at the podium in 1986, while Georges Prêtre conducted the 1973, 1977 and 2005 editions. Such a prestigious interpretative history also includes the return of the fresh interpretative intelligence of Maxime Pascal, one of today's most captivating French conductors, who has led important contemporary titles at La Scala, and the La Scala debut of Romeo Castellucci, leading Italian stage director, regularly invited to major European theaters and festivals, whose conception of a sacred and visionary theater, deeply rooted in art history, promises a precious encounter with
the symbolism of Debussy's work.