Pelléas et Mélisande - Paris Opera
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2h 48m
In 1902, the premiere of Pelléas et Mélisande at the Opéra-Comique in Paris made Claude Debussy famous. In 2012, the Paris Opera celebrated the composer's 150th birthday with avant-garde director Robert Wilson’s “wondrous” (Le Figaro) production featuring "bold and modern" (Los Angeles Times) imagery and a stellar cast. Debussy based his work – his sole completed opera – on a Symbolist play by Nobel Prize winning dramatist Maurice Maeterlinck about a fateful love that leads to uncontrollable jealousy and revenge. Philippe Jordan, the music director of the Opéra national de Paris, gives a transparent reading of Debussy’s haunting music, a rich tapestry of shimmering, iridescent sounds.
Composer: Claude Debussy
Conductor: Philippe Jordan
Venue: Opéra Bastille
Orchestra: Opéra National de Paris
Cast/Soloist: Stéphane Degout, Elena Tsallagova, Anne Sofie von Otter, Vincent le Texier
Genre: Opera
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