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3 days ago · Composed by Claude Debussy. Libretto based on the play of the same name by Maurice Maeterlinck. Cast and production staff: Pelléas: Ben Bliss; Mélisande: Sabine Devieilhe; Golaud: Laurent Naouri; Arkel: Franz-Josef Selig; Geneviève: Sophie Koch; Yniold: Soloist from the Tölzer Knabenchor; Doctor: Martin Snell; Shepherd: Pawel Horodyski.
3 days ago · Three operas portray the trancelike state of love, from a world-premiere production exploring the intimate bond between John Singer Sargent and his male studio model to Debussy’s classic tragedy ...
4 days ago · In his response to Maurice Maeterlinck’s drama on the doomed love between Pelleas and Melisande, Arnold Schoenberg (born 150 years ago) pushes a colossal symphony orchestra to its limits.
3 days ago · A new production of Pelléas et Mélisande (Act II, Scene 1 pictured, photograph by Wilfried Hösl) opened as part of the Münchner Opernfestspiele opened earlier this month. Last night's performance had some very nice singing, but the production did not elucidate this dreamy, strange piece. Maestro Hannu Lintu presided over a glittery ...
Directing team. plot. The opera Pelléas et Mélisande, world premiere in 1902 in Paris, is based on the eponymous play by Flemish symbolist Maurice Maeterlinck, a tragically ending fairy-tale love triangle surrounding the half-brothers Golaud and Pelléas and the mysterious Mélisande loved by both.
2 days ago · While Pelleas und Melisande premiered with Zemlinsky’s Die Seejungfrau, it was not even possible for the pieces to be performed together between around 1907 and 1984. This is because Zemlinsky soon withdrew his work before giving the score of the first movement to his friend, Marie Pappenheim, and taking the second and third with him to New York when he fled Austria in 1938.
1 day ago · Munich. 22/07/22. Prinzregententheater. Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande. Sabine Devieilhe (Mélisande), Ben Bliss (Pelléas), Christian Gerhaher (Goulaud), Franz-Josef Selig (Arkel), Sophie Koch (Geneviève) y otros. Orquesta, coro y bailarines de Bayerische Staatsoper. Jetske Minssen, dirección de ...
