Pelléas et Mélisande

Pelléas et Mélisande (Pelléas and Mélisande) is an opera in five acts with music by Claude Debussy. The French libretto was adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's Symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande. It premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 30 April 1902 with Jean Périer as Pelléas and Mary Garden as Mélisande in a performance conducted by André Messager, who was instrumental in getting the Opéra-Comique to stage the work. The only opera Debussy ever completed, it is considered a landmark in 20th-century music.

Cast

Alison Hagley Mélisande

Neill Archer Pelléas

Donald Maxwell Golaud

Kenneth Cox Arkel

Penelope Walker Geneviève

Peter Masocchi Le Berger / Le Médecin

Samuel Burkey Yniold

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