Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande

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• Genre(s): Musical
• Language(s): Français (French)
• Director(s): Pierre Boulez, Peter Stein
• Cast(s): Donald Maxwell, Alison Hagley, Neill Archer, Kenneth Cox, Penelope Walker See all Cast & Crew

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  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.
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