Jul 04, 2012 to explore further debussys subtle orchestral hues, his short ballet, jeux, is seen by many as an even fuller expression of his avantgarde soundworld. The premiere performance was at the operacomique in paris on 30 april 1902. This is a very peculiar first dvd production of pelleas et melisande. Unlike karajans wagnerization of debussys intimate score emi, 288 or boulezs pitilessly spotlit reduction of it to a bourgeois domestic tragedy transferred to a mythical royal setting sony classical, 492, ansermets classical recordingthe first of his two for decca, made for the fiftieth anniversary of the works premiere in 1902seeks to capture its subtle symbolic atmosphere by. It was adapted as an opera by claude debussy, and it inspired other contemporary composers, including gabriel faure, arnold schoenberg, and jean sibelius. Pelleas et melisande roger desormiere on allmusic 1988. His single completed opera, pelleas et melisande 1st perf. Excerpt thanks to maeterlincks characters, to his highly precise and very vague language, so cruel and so apt, debussy was able to realise the drama of his dreams.
It is almost as if debussy imagined pelleas et melisande before he actually encountered it. Debussys pelleas et melisande act 4, scene 4 youtube. Opera in five acts and fifteen scenes after the play by maurice maeterlinck 18621949. Pelleas et melisande pelleas and melisande is an opera in five acts with music by claude debussy. Pelleas et melisande had its premiere in paris in 1893. The fate of our site directly depends on its relevance. Jacques jansen may no longer convey the youthful radiance of pelleas to the degree that he was able to do fifteen. Claude debussy pelleas et melisande 1979, vinyl discogs. Claudeachille debussy 22 august 1862 25 march 1918 orchestra. Franz welsermost, conducting the cleveland orchestra in debussys pelleas et melisande, with from left, julia aks, hanno. Oct 31, 2016 production at the theater quartier hamburg in november 2015. The only opera debussy ever completed, it is considered a landmark in 20thcentury music. Indeed, for the current revival, the cast was close to ideal with one important exception and the singing was spectacular. F or many admirers of debussys only completed opera, the recording currently available on emi roger desormiere.
Jul 17, 2018 launching our debussy centenary celebrations, glyndebourne brings the composers luminous symbolist opera pelleas et melisande a tale of desire, jealousy and revenge to the proms. Haitink is a conductor who to my ears invariably refuses to interpret. As commonly with arthaus dvds and some opera house programmes too there is no discussion of what lies behind the production, which is far from self. Debussy pelleas et melisande pierre boulez youtube. Too much singing and the musical settings are too cumbersome my idea is of a short libretto with mobile scenes. It was first performed in 1893 the work was very popular. It was captured in january 2016 during performances of an innovative collaboration between rattle and peter sellars, two of the boldest creative minds in music and theatre today. The word overview ideally suggests that every single extant version of a recording should be covered in the contents. You can help us by sharing the link with friends, in social networks, message boards and other mass media. Pelleas et melisande is an opera in five acts with music by claude debussy.
Erich leinsdorfcleveland orchestraerich leinsdorf, conductorcolumbia 78rpm set mm845 xco 35889. Jul 06, 2016 barbara makes her debut as melisande in debussys pelleas et melisande at this years festival daixenprovence, directed by katie mitchell esapekka salonen conducts the philharmonia orchestra in the festivals new production of the opera, which is in partnership with teatr wielki opera narodowa and the beijing music festival. It was premiered at the salle favart in paris by the operacomique on 30 april 1902 with jean perier as pelleas and mary garden as melisande in a performance conducted by andre messager, who. Set in a medieval dreamworld, pelleas et melisande pelleas and melisande, which had firmly established maeterlincks international reputation, provided an apt framework for debussys evocative opera, in which melisande occupies the central position, the drama studying her in relationship with others, with golaud, with pelleas and with. Kozenas melisande has a firm streak of redblooded coquettish defiance that is effective, even if it belies the characters. And it is not on account of the peculiarities of debussys style of which one may find isolated examples in great composers before him, in chopin, liszt, chabrier, and richard strauss but because with debussy these peculiarities are an expression of his personality, and because pelleas et melisande, the land of ninths, has a poetic. Download torrent debussy flac fast and easy torrent search. Debussy elisabeth soderstrom, george shirley, donald mcintyre, david ward 7, yvonne minton, royal opera chorus, orchestra of the royal opera house, covent garden, pierre boulez. Van dam is the perfect golaud,and ewing is fine as melisande. Pelleas et melisande is a symbolist play by maurice maeterlinck about the forbidden, doomed love of the title characters.
It premiered at the operacomique in paris on 30 april 1902. This is a discography of pelleas et melisande, an opera by claude debussy. An introduction to debussys pelleas et melisande naxos. Debussys pelleas et melisande musicweb international. No discussion or arguments between the characters whom i see at the mercy of life or destiny. Pelleas et melisande, claude debussy articulate silences. Albums include 69 plunderphonics 96, 111 years of deutsche grammophon. Sir simon rattle leads an allstar cast in this highly anticipated new recording of debussys evocative opera pelleas et melisande. Sep 19, 2015 claude debussy pelleas et melisande with score. Pelleas et melisande is by no means my favourite debussy work. Claude debussy pelleas et melisande with score youtube. Now, a century after its premiere, the frequent stagings and numerous recordings of pelleas have proven debussys call for a society of musical.
Pelleas et melisande at the met featuring finley and. W e tend to think of debussys symbolist tragedy primarily as a hermetic work, examining halfvoiced. Les soirs illumines par lardeur du charbon in ab album leaf, for piano. Music profile for claude debussy, born 22 august 1862. The list includes all of the studio recordings and also some live performances available on audio cd and dvd.
Claude debussys only opera, pelleas et melisande is a remarkable setting of maurice maeterlincks symbolist play. Pelleas et melisande debussy opera scenes on vimeo. The arkiv list for audio recordings and dvd films of pelleas et melisande available for purchase stretches to nineteen performances. Torrent info for debussy pelleas et melisande haitink.
This epochal play by the belgian poet and playwright maurice maeterlinck 18621949, one of the masterpieces of the symbolist movement, left its mark not only on fellow writers and poets but on a wide range of composers as well most famously, claude debussy, who immediately embarked. Claude debussy, maurice maeterlinck claude debussy, maurice maeterlinck pelleas et melisande. Pelleas et melisande sir simon rattle, lso lso live. Pierre strosser takes responsibility for the set designs and stage direction, and patrice cauchetier for the modern dress. Debussys pelleas et melisande a discographical survey by ralph. Its a work that is founded on ambience and ambiguity, as much in the libretto maurice maeterlincks symbolist drama brought over almost intact as in the haunting qualities of debussys music, which. Pelleas et melisande magdalena kozena kozena, deutsches symphonieorchester berlin, robin ticciati. Pelleas et melisande american guild of musical artists. Maurice ravel claude debussy, nadine sautereau, denise scharley, ernest bour conducting the orchestre national and choir of radiodiffusion francaise.
Robert elibayhartog pelleas estelle lefort melisande vladimir yaskorski conductor luise kautz stage direction lani tranduc. Notes, this contains the expanded orchestral interludes in acts i, ii and iv but not debussys extensive 1905 revisions of orchestration. The french libretto was adapted from maurice maeterlincks symbolist play pelleas et melisande. Debussys interest shifted to pelleas et melisande, which he had read some time between its.
Pelleas et melisande pelleas and melisande is an opera in five acts with music by claude. Debussy pelleas et melisande semistaged performance. Production at the theater quartier hamburg in november 2015. Claude debussy, pierre boulez pelleas et melisande. The opera as a whole is very slow and lowkey, and the singing mostly parlando which at least works better on dvd with subtitles. Jan 07, 2011 beginning with its premiere performance of pelleas et melisande in 1925, the metropolitan opera has consistently lavished firstrate conductors and singers on debussys enigmatic masterpiece. Bernard haitinks reading of this glorious, misty work is gloriously misty, if thats what youre looking for.
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