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Spiral staircase and paddling pool: Pelléas et Mélisande from Welsh National Opera

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“Pelléas was the naive, irrepressible, boyish Jacques Imbrailo”
Reviewed at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff on 29 May 2015
Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande
Lothar Koenigs, Conductor
Sir David Pountney, Director
Johan Engels, Set Designer
Marie-Jeanne Lecca, Costume Designer
Jacques Imbrailo, Pelléas
Jurgita Adamonytė, Mélisande
Christopher Purves, Golaud
Leah-Marian Jones, Geneviève
Scott Wilde, Arkel
Rebecca Bottone, Yniold
Stephen Wells, A Doctor
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