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| DVD Information |  | Debussy - Pelleas et Melisande / Gardiner, Alliot-Lugaz, Le Roux, Opera National de Lyon | | | | UPC: 014381931129 | | Art House & International : By Original Language : French | | Amazon.com
Claude Debussy's great literary opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, based on Maeterlinck's dramatic reading of the classic tale of sibling rivalry, was first performed in 1902. This 1988 production was recorded at the Opéra national de Lyon, swapping a traditional medieval forest setting for a fin de siècle Castle Allemonde in which the characters wander through vast, shadowy, and empty halls. The cast features Colette Alliot-Lugaz as a mercurial Mélisande and François Le Roux as a Byronic Pelléas, with José van Dam as his brother Golaud, the austere fly in the ointment.
Little actually happens on stage. The characters circle each other, describing events and emotions which they only half understand. Often, their recitative is introspective rather than a means of external communication. The drama is played out in the landscape of the mind, punctuated and emphasized by Debussy's remarkable, brooding, and atmospheric score. At times, it becomes the swirling stuff of nightmare, an aspect to which John Eliot Gardiner's assured conducting pays close attention. The opera might come to its inevitable end, but there is a strong sense that these ghost-like figures are doomed to repeat their tragic tale endlessly. Uncomfortably haunting stuff, with moments of breathtaking beauty. --Piers Ford, Amazon.co.uk --This text refers to the VHS Tape edition.
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Claude Debussy's only opera, which brilliantly conveys a dark, otherworldly mysteriousness through its breathtakingly beautiful music, tells the story of two young lovers who are tragically torn apart. Pelleas and Melisande fall deeply in love, but their union is doomed by the anger and vengefulness of the aging Golaud, Melisande's estranged husband. Pierre Strosser's highly original interpretation strips the masterpiece from its usual mythical setting and uses intimate camerawork to emphasize... read more | | | | Products related to "Debussy - Pelleas et Melisande / Gardiner, Alliot-Lugaz, Le Roux, Opera National de Lyon" from Amazon.com | |
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