Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in London

Por Mark Valencia, 10 enero 2016

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“Pelléas et Mélisande is like a coral lagoon: its secret lies deep”

Crítica hecha desde Barbican Hall, Londres el 9 enero 2016

Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande (semi-staged performance)

Sir Simon Rattle, Dirección

Peter Sellars, Dirección de escena

Christian Gerhaher, Pelléas

Magdalena Kožená, Mélisande

Gerald Finley, Golaud

Elias Madlër, Yniold

Franz-Josef Selig, Arkel

Bernarda Fink, Geneviève

Joshua Bloom, Shepherd, A Doctor

London Symphony Chorus

Simon Halsey, Dirección de coro

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Mark Valencia

Mark has worked in arts journalism for four decades, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera and music. Mark also writes for Opera magazine and for Musical America as a correspondent for Europe and the UK.

Rattle and Sellars revisit Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande