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Laurent Pelly, opera director
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'...history has mysteriously caught up with his vision. His joyfully
millenarian conclusion presents us with the death of capitalism, and
there could be no neater symbolic reflection of that hopeful dream
now pervading public consciousness. Moreover, Pelly's forest of denuded
trees and dirty plastic bags is a perfect metaphor for ecological devastation,
while the fear of hunger - until recently, a theoretical conceit for
us Westerners - chimes uneasily with reality.' |
'Making an opera "relevant" to contemporary life often leads to flat-footed dumbing-down, but Laurent Pelly's poetic, witty and imaginative modernising of Hänsel und Gretel gives fresh vitality to Humperdinck's adorable masterpiece......Pelly and his set designer Barbara de Limburg Stirum don't force the analogies - the scenario seems to evolve quite naturally out of both the source in Grimm's fairy tale and our current crop of child-based anxieties. And the points aren't crassly rammed home - the production is bizarrely beautiful and very funny, using some simple but eternally effective theatrical trickery.' Daily Telegraph - Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, Glyndebourne
'The Royal Opera has hit the jackpot again with a Donizetti comedy.
Laurent Pelly and his regular set designer, Chantal Thomas, with near
perfect symmetry return to stage Donizetti’s comic masterpiece,
L’elisir d’amore. Pelly, who also designed the costumes,
and Thomas deserve the lion’s share of the credit, since this
is a production bereft of its promised superstar.'
'Drop them all [the entire cast] into a production from Laurent Pelly that needs no special pleading on comedic grounds, and is by turns elegant, witty, and laugh-out-loud funny, and you've one of the happiest nights the Royal Opera has fielded since I don't know when.' The Independent - Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment, Royal Opera House
Laurent Pelly is represented worldwide by Van Walsum Management in association with cathy nelson artists and projects . |
