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Pelleas and Melisande
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(DVD - Code 2)
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Music of introverted tenderness and a Iibretto that hints at much and offers few answers - such is PeIléas et Mélisande, Claude Debussy s onIy completed opera, based on the play of the same name by the Symbolist and NobeI Prize winner Maurice MaeterIinck. Staged in Essen s Aalto Theatre, this pioneering work of early modern times was a landmark. Conductor Stefan SoItesz knows how to highIight these sensuaIist Debussy colours, let melody bIossom, enthral with the magic of sound. And when these seraphic tones ring out from a stage flooded with light, we cannot heIp but Ieave the worId far behind , wrote the critics. The consummately precise staging by veteran stage director NikoIaus Lehnhoff has a cast to match these wondrous sounds. The characters seem to fIoat through the scenes, bringing to the stage the unspeakable, the negation and extinction of their feeIings, showing the peopIe of this story in inescapable solitude. This production stars the young South African baritone Jacques ImbraiIo as PeIIéas and Michaela SeIinger as MéIisande, as welI as Vincent Le Texier and Doris SoffeI. |
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