The first and only time, until Saturday, that Los Angeles Opera had mounted Debussy’s “Pelléas et Mélisande” was in 1995. The company, then Music Center Opera, was an ambitious 9-year-old newcomer to ...
BERLIN — It may seem a paradox that one of the most influential composers of modern sung theater completed only one opera. “Pelléas et Mélisande” brought French composer Claude Debussy instant fame in ...
The orchestra doubles as a forest and the heroine dies among the violins … Peter Sellars and Simon Rattle reveal how they’re taking Debussy’s dark and disturbing opera Pelléas et Mélisande to new ...
Symphony orchestras’ current vogue for staged opera requires directors with the imagination to work in an unconventional space. Conceptualizing Debussy’s “Pelléas et Mélisande” for the Cleveland ...
Julien Behr/Vannina Santoni/Alexandre Duhamel/Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth (Harmonia Mundi) Period instruments and French voices add an extra dimension to François-Xavier Roth’s recording “Pelléas ...
Perhaps it has appeared so infrequently because of the relatively static nature of the drama and the naturalistic setting of the text. Overall, it seems better suited to the concert hall, and so it ...
Even after a premiere performance, he would continue making adjustments, sometimes to more than one copy of a given score. And he left the majority of his stage works unorchestrated before dying at ...
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