Pelléas et Mélisande

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Pelléas et Mélisande (Pelléas and Mélisande) is an opera in five acts with music by Claude Debussy. The French libretto was adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's Symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande. It premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 30 April 1902 with Jean Périer as Pelléas and Mary Garden as Mélisande in a performance conducted by André Messager, who was instrumental in getting the Opéra-Comique to stage the work. The only opera Debussy ever completed, it is considered a landmark in 20th-century music.

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Languages: French

Director: Peter Stein

Starring Cast: Alison Hagley, Neill Archer, Donald Maxwell, Kenneth Cox, Penelope Walker, Peter Masocchi

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Alison Hagley

Mélisande

Neill Archer

Pelléas

Donald Maxwell

Golaud

Kenneth Cox

Arkel

Penelope Walker

Geneviève

Peter Masocchi

Le Berger / Le Médecin

Samuel Burkey

Yniold

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