Now singing everything from Venetian Baroque to Debussy's Mélisande, Ms. Kožena says she is a product of her strict musical upbringing under communism, when she sung in a children's choir, and from the burst of freedom in the 1990s ...

The production, set in a noirish 1940s Spain, also stars soprano Corinne Winters (last year's Melisande), tenor Adam Diegel and bass-baritone Aleksey Bogdanov. Conductor Carlos Izcaray and stage director Stephen Barlow make their company debuts with the production.

There were those who took what they needed from him while creating their own language, like Debussy in “Pelléas et Mélisande.” And there were others who remained mired in being, merely, Wagnerian. Around the turn of the 20th century ...

It was also wonderful to hear the other movements from his Suite: Pelléas et Mélisande, with a nicely blended orchestral sound in the Prelude and a sparkling evocation of a spinning wheel in La Fileuse thanks to deft playing from the woodwind.

There were those who took what they needed from him while creating their own language, like Debussy in “Pelléas et Mélisande.” And there were others who remained mired in being, merely, Wagnerian. Around the turn of the 20th century ...

Tarmy: How much is art and how much is stage set? Kapoor: When I did “Pelleas and Melisande” in Brussels, I made it as a kind of sculpture in which everything took place. This time, it will be more like a series of sets. Tarmy: What is your ...

Book ahead for opera productions by the Opera National de Paris (www.operadeparis.fr) with Jules Massenet's Manon (January 10 - February 13), Verdi's Rigoletto (January 27 - February 23) and Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in a production by Bob Wilson ...

The non-conformism of the composer is much evidenced in his symphony La Mer, but also in the well-known ballet Jeux as well as his opera Pelléas et Mélisande. Another anniversary, this time of Francis Poulenc’s sonata composed 70 years ago, hails the ...