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Pelléas et Mélisande: an opera that demands the audience enter in

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Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City on 17 December 2010
Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande
Metropolitan Opera
Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor
Magdalena Kožená, Mélisande
Dame Felicity Palmer, Geneviève
Stéphane Degout, Pelléas
Gerald Finley, Golaud
Sir Willard White, Arkel
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