Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Programme
| Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) | Pelléas et Mélisande (opera in 5 acts) |
Performers
| Esa-Pekka Salonen | Conductor | |
| Philharmonia Orchestra | ||
| Philharmonia Voices | ||
| Sandrine Piau | Soprano | Mélisande |
| Stéphane Degout | Baritone | Pelléas |
| Laurent Naouri | Baritone | Golaud |
| Chloé Briot | Soprano | Yniold |
| Dame Felicity Palmer | Soprano | Geneviève |
| Jérôme Varnier | Bass | Arkel |
| Darren Jeffery | Baritone | A Doctor |
A performance of the magical Pelléas et Mélisande, Debussy's sole operatic masterpiece.
Set to a libretto adapted by Maurice Maeterlinck from his own play, Debussy's only opera develops with a mystical fluidity which allows the tragic love-triangle to unfold without resorting to set pieces or outbursts of vocal histrionics.
Puccini - who rather liked the work - aptly described Pelléas as 'sombre and pure, like a Franciscan's habit'.
