At the opera, Maurice Maeterlinck is best known as the author of Pelléas et Mélisande, the play upon which Debussy based his mysterious opera of the same name. But this Symbolist playwright wrote other dreamscapes, among them “three little dramas for marionettes.” La Monnaie has asked the composer Benjamin Attahir for an opera based on these puppet plays. The commission, highly intriguing, is called Le Silence des Ombres (The Silence of Shadows). —L.J.
The Arts Intel Report
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
Le Silence des Ombres, by Benjamin Attahir
When
Sept 25 – Oct 6, 2019