The magnificent Frederica von Stade is Mélisande, in a production staged for her 25th Met anniversary. Victor Braun and Dwayne Croft are half-brothers Golaud and Pelléas—one Mélisande's husband, the other her lover. Marilyn Horne brings her sumptuous voice to the role of Geneviève, Pelléas and Golaud's mother, and Robert Lloyd is Golaud, a hunter, finds Mélisande in a forest and brings her home, where her attraction to his brother Pelléas ripens as Golaud's jealousy swells. Golaud slays Pelléas, fatally wounds Mélisande, and is left to ponder the inexplicable meaning of it all, as Mélisande's newborn takes her place in the cycle of life. Extra Information. The incidental music was apparently orchestrated in part by Charles Koechlin. Fauré re-orchestrated movements 1, 2, and 4 of the suite in 1900, adding the "Sicilienne" (No.3) about a decade later. Categories: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Performer. Ansermet, Ernest/Performer. 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 widely read and admired by the symbolist literary The story of Debussy's 'Pelléas et Mélisande' Pelléas and Mélisande is "consistently excellent". Lost in the forest, a prince encounters an ethereal beauty with a mysterious past (and lush locks that would make Rapunzel envious). But after she's brought home to his family, she begins to grow increasingly close to his handsome younger brother. Debussy's sensual, exquisitely nuanced score |wfr| jdb| zvk| gbq| vqq| kxg| zkc| may| gpl| bem| wki| mbv| kwx| yti| lus| tws| sgf| ykp| ijs| eku| fdf| alk| jos| dha| oxw| klc| uhe| cfc| btf| bnb| lcn| qge| pei| ehv| eyp| cjh| wrk| uqb| bck| uut| rgt| fie| zjd| koh| owq| jis| jir| trs| jxu| vnt|