Maeterlinck

A vital storyteller, he thrillingly illustrates Maurice Maeterlinck’s original play, as thoughtfully used surtitles made especially apparent.

Five of his stage works were performed there, most recently his ninth and final completed opera, “L’Invisible,” which was based on texts by the Belgian Symbolist Maurice Maeterlinck and premiered in 2017.

In the hands of artistic visionaries such as Maurice Maeterlinck, Thornton Wilder, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Adrienne Kennedy and Caryl Churchill, compression has been a spur to creative freedom and experiment.

Maeterlinck is worth revisiting—his elliptical dialogue looks ahead to the work of Samuel Beckett.

Baker’s signature hyper-realism makes room for an irrational dimension that lightly evokes the supernatural enigmas of Maurice Maeterlinck and August Strindberg.