Laurent Pelly
2021Don Quichotte
Laurent Pelly
José van Dam
This May 2010 production of Massenet's 1910 opera "Don Quichotte" marked the opera's centenary and also Jose Van Dam's operatic farewell at the Theatre de la Monnaie, Brussels. It is beautiful in every way--vocally, scenically, sonically, and visually--and a worthy record of Van Dam's farewell. Van Dam is just shy of 70 in this production, but you would never guess it from his singing or stage movements--a consummate artist. His is a noble portrayal and deeply moving. The Act V death scene is a model of beautiful singing and acting.
Don Quichotte
La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein
François Roussillon, Laurent Pelly
Felicity Lott, Sandrine Piau
Live performance at the Théâtre du Châtelet in December 2004. Marc Minkowski conducting Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble. Stage direction by Laurent Pelly.
La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein
Orphée aux enfers
Laurent Pelly
Natalie Dessay, Yann Beuron
Marc Minkowski conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Opera National de Lyon in this 1997 production of Offenbach's opera starring Natalie Dessay, Yann Beuron, Jean-Paul Fouchecourt and Laurent Naouri.
Orphée aux enfers
Cendrillon
Olivier Simonnet, Laurent Pelly
Alice Coote, Joyce DiDonato
Massenet composed his opera about Cenerentola nearly 80 years after Rossini did his. And if you are looking for the outburst of the non-stop hilarity and the musical jokes of Rossini, you won't find it here. Also, while the Cendrillon was highly successful and popular in its time, it does not reach up to the artistic and musical levels offered by Massenet's other operas, like Manon, or Thais or Werther. Nevertheless, this is a delightful opera and it is well presented by The Royal Opera. Laurent Pelly created a ingenious setting with movable walls which are covered [in French] with the story of Cinderella, and which open and close book-like.
Cendrillon
La Belle Hélène
Ross MacGibbon, Laurent Pelly
Felicity Lott, Yann Beuron
This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as always he seems to still retain the Offenbach magic. La Lott and Monsieur Beuron are a joy, but so is everyone else. The Patriotic Trio by the sea is both a hoot and wonderfully sung, the score seems truly complete yet never flags and the finale sequences for especially acts 1 & 2 are a joy of movement and sound fused as one glorious Offenbachian moment.
La Belle Hélène
Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
Gary Halvorson, Laurent Pelly
Pretty Yende, Javier Camarena
Tenor Javier Camarena and soprano Pretty Yende team up for a feast of bel canto vocal fireworks—including the show-stopping tenor aria “Ah! Mes amis,” with its nine high Cs. Alessandro Corbelli and Maurizio Muraro trade off as the comic Sergeant Sulpice, with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as the outlandish Marquise of Berkenfield. Enrique Mazzola conducts.
The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment
Massenet: Manon
Gary Halvorson, Laurent Pelly
Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala
Star soprano Anna Netrebko scored a triumph in Laurent Pelly’s acclaimed 2012 production, singing the title heroine for the first time at the Met. Manon’s story—from innocent country girl to celebrated courtesan to destitute prisoner—is one of the great tragic tales in literature and music, and this performance brings out all of its colors, as seen through Massenet’s masterful score, from the comedic beginning to the heart-wrenching finale. Piotr Bezcala is des Grieux, Manon’s lover, who decides to become a priest when she leaves him, but ultimately is reunited with her, only to lose her again. Paulo Szot sings Lescaut, and Fabio Luisi conducts the Met Orchestra and Chorus.
Massenet: Manon
Robert le Diable
Laurent Pelly, Sue Judd
Bryan Hymel, Patrizia Ciofi
Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, December 2012. Daniel Oren conducting Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus. A grand opera that dominated the stages of Europe for most of the 19th century, Robert le diable is a masterpiece. Director Laurent Pelly breathes new life into Giacomo Meyerbeer's great spectacle and audaciously entertaining moral fable, in this colourful new staging for The Royal Opera.
Robert le Diable
Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel
Laurent Pelly, Thomas Grimm
Jennifer Holloway, Adriana Kučerová
As bright and colorful as penny candy, this visually arresting production of Engelbert Humperdinck's "Hansel und Gretel" puts a twist on the classic fairy tale upon which it's based by uprooting the action to modern times. Director Laurent Pelly's interpretation, which premiered at Glyndebourne in 2008, finds Hansel, Gretel and their family taking shelter in a cardboard box while the witch's stock of goodies lines the shelves of a supermarket.
Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel
The ROH Live: L'Elisir d'Amore
Laurent Pelly
Lucy Crowe, Vittorio Grigolo
Известная постановка оперы Доницетти режиссером Лораном Пелли излучает нежность и юмор на фоне жгучего южного солнца в сказке о наивном деревенском юноше, который опьянен любовью к Адине, отвергающей по началу его пылкие признания. К счастью, есть доктор - "специалист" по любви и владеющий "секретом" специального зелья, любовного напитка, способного помочь юноше завоевать свою даму сердца.
The ROH Live: L'Elisir d'Amore
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi
Laurent Pelly
Carlo Lepore, Vittorio Grigolo
Weary of tragic subjects, for the final part of Il Trittico Puccini composed a grand confidence trick orchestrated by a falsifier willing to do anything to gain wealth. Including bringing back the dead!
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi
La Fille du régiment - Royal Opera House
Laurent Pelly
Javier Camarena, Pretty Yende
Marie was found on a battlefield as a baby, and raised by the entire 21st Regiment as their 'daughter'. Her foster-father Sulpice has decreed that she should marry a soldier from the Regiment. When Marie falls for the Tyrolean Tonio, it looks as though she may have to choose between her family and true love.
La Fille du régiment - Royal Opera House
