MusicDrama

Pelléas et Mélisande

Name: Pelléas et Mélisande
Director: Felix Breisach
Genre: Music, Drama
Released: 2004-11-16
Duration: 161 min
Cast: Franz Welser-Möst, Rodney Gilfry, Isabel Rey, Michael Volle, László Polgár

November 16, 2004

2h 41m

Claude Debussy's fairy tale-based opera Pelléas et Mélisande is by now well known; at once a tale of doomed love and a meditation on the cycle of creation and destruction (adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's 1893 symbolist play), it originally premiered in 1902 to mixed critical reception, but has since become a staple of the operatic repertory and one of the most popular works from Debussy's canon. This particular production emerged from the Opernhaus Zürich in 2004. It stars Rodney Gilfry as Pelléas, Isabel Rey as Mélisande and Michael Volle as Golaud. Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Zurich Opera Orchestra; Sven-Eric Bectholf directs for the stage.