Plot
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.
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Cast
Franz Welser-Möst
Conductor
Rodney Gilfry
Pelléas
Isabel Rey
Mélisande
Michael Volle
Golaud
László Polgár
Arkel
Cornelia Kallisch
Geneviève
Eva Liebau
Yniold
Guido Götzen
un médecin / un berger
