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Pelléas et Mélisande: Directed by Humphrey Burton. With Christiane Oelze, Richard Croft, John Tomlinson, Gwynne Howell.
- (18)
- Family, Drama, Music
- Humphrey Burton
- 164
Pelléas and Mélisande ( French: Pelléas et Mélisande) is a Symbolist play by the Belgian playwright and author Maurice Maeterlinck. It's about the forbidden, doomed love of the title characters and was first performed in 1893 . The work never achieved great success on stage, apart from operatic setting by Claude Debussy, but was at the time ...
Pelléas et Mélisande: Directed by Jean-François Jung. With Colette Alliot-Lugaz, François Le Roux, José van Dam, Roger Soyer.
- (18)
- Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
- Jean-François Jung
- 146
Prince Golaud finds Mélisande, a mysterious young woman, lost in a forest. He marries her and brings her back to the castle of his grandfather, King Arkel of Allemonde. Here Mélisande becomes increasingly attached to Golaud’s younger half-brother Pelléas, arousing Golaud’s jealousy. Golaud goes to excessive lengths to find out the truth about Pelléas and Mélisande’s relationship ...
Movie. NR 2 hr 41 min Drama, Music. Claude Debussys fairy talebased opera Pelléas et Mélisande is by now well known at once a tale of doomed love and a meditation on the cycle of creation and ...
- Felix Breisach
- Opernhaus Zürich TDK
- Franz Welser-Möst
May 1, 2016 · In this strikingly modern 2016 production from the Zurich Opera House, Tcherniakov transposes the opera’s intrigue from forest and castle to living room and psychiatric office. The love story of the original work remains riveting, but Tcherniakov brings an unexpected psychological element to his mise en scène, with Prince Golaud as a psychiatrist and Mélisande as a young woman suffering ...
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Nov 16, 2004 · Claude Debussy's fairy tale-based opera Pelléas et Mélisande is by now well known; at once a tale of doomed love and a meditation on the cycle of creation and destruction (adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's 1893 symbolist play), it originally premiered in 1902 to mixed critical reception, but has since become a staple of the operatic repertory and one of the most popular works from Debussy's ...
