Opera Theater Oregon takes a break from vintage horror and wacky remakes of Wagner operas to consider the subdued beauty of Claude Debussy's fairytale opera, "Pelléas et Mélisande." The composer of "Claire de lune" and "Prelude to the ...

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 ...

“There’s definitely a connection between that” music, Meecham says, “and [“Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun”] and the first scene of Pelleas,” both of which were written in 1893, several years later. Both arrangements are being ...

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 ...

Especially the last act can be almost sentimental. 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 ...

Produced by Philippe Martin (Les films Pelleas), the film follows Desssay from the first rehearsals until the premiere of Verdi’s masterpiece under the direction of Jean-François Sivadier. The film will be ready later this summer.

His first wife, Lily, attempted suicide with a gun when he left her for a married woman, Emma Bardac. His sole opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, the crowning masterpiece of musical Symbolism, caused incomprehension and derision in its time. His only daughter ...

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 ...

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.