Pelleas et melisande pelleas and melisande is an opera in five acts with music by claude. Van dam is the perfect golaud,and ewing is fine as melisande. I cant find the performance on you tube, but here is baudo conducting marius. Debussy opera challenge update pelleas et melisande. Pelleas et melisande by pierre boulez on amazon music. Debussys opera pelleas et melisande gave him an opportunity to creatively depict. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Pelleas et melisande recordings hello, i was wondering what peoples favorite audiorecordings of debussys pelleas et melisande are.
Karlernst herrmanns settings feature silhouetted, twodimensional outline walls, steeply angled cliffs and use of curtains as cinematic wipes. Boulez with the orchestra and chorus of the royal opera house covent garden, particularly on vinyl, is quite good. The music treasures consortium is an alliance of many libraries. Debussy pelleas et melisande pierre boulez youtube. April 23 2019 at the salle bourgie, montreal video. Nevertheless, here he is in that well khoyiti home of eighteenth century cantatas, covent garden, conducting pelleas et melisande for the first time in londonor anywhere else for that matter. At the same time the resulting need for nonfrench speakers to follow the printed text and translation whilst listening does mean that there can be a sense of watching the action through a grimy pane of glass. Id be disappointed if i was seen as the mean guy, said canadianborn baritone gerald finley, who sings golaud. When he appeared there in public a couple of sundays back to discuss the work in the course of an evening lecture no. Boulezs statement stands in contrast to the assertion of debussys biographer leon.
Boulez returned to conduct pelleas in an acclaimed production by the german director peter. It is a bit like its characters, who evolve in another world, lost in the mists of a never ending dream, set to a hypnotic music that serves as a blurry mirror image of it. She welded gravitas and humour to her assumption of genevieve, the mother of pelleas and golaud. Melisande veronica cangemi pelleas giuseppe filianotti golaud david maze arkel lucas debevec mayer genevieve adriana mastrangelo yniold marianella nervi fadol orquesta estable del. Boulez dvd recording of pelleas with the welsh national is one of the most heavenly moments on video. Natalie dessay and laurent pelly disappoints in pelleas. When he addresses her she cringes and sings her first words almost without a voice. Boulez is a very goog chef dorchestre, his version of pelleas et melisande is one of the best and the best for me. 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. Pelleas et melisande debussy, welsh national opera, boulez. In a dark castle weighed down by grief, a widower has brought home a mysterious young girl. Pelleas et melisande, opera in 5 acts by claude debussy melisande maria ewing pelleas francois le roux golaud jose van dam arkel jeanphilippe courtis genevieve christa ludwig yniold. Berlin after a long tour with the complete cycle of beethoven symphonies, which took in paris and vienna on its way to five largely soldout nights at carnegie hall in november, the berlin. Pierre boulez regia peter stein cardiff, 1992 italian subtitle 25 marzo 2018 ricordando claude debussy 1862 1918 a 100 anni dalla morte.
Pelleas and melisande is the first canon shot in the war of the avantgarde against the tediousness of realism and naturalism. Theatre royal, glasgow four stars keith bruce it is, of course, claude debussys glorious music that draws people back to pelleas and melisande, but the composer was one of many drawn to set. When an attraction develops between the girl and his brother, the family is shattered. Alison hagley melisande, neill archer pelleas, donald maxwell golaud, kenneth cox arkel, penelope walker genevieve, samuel burkey yniold, peter massocchi docteur, chorus and orchestra of welsh national opera, pierre boulez, directed by peter stein. Claude debussy 18621918 pelleas et melisande drame lyrique en 5 actes, l. Order from your preferred classical music cd store arkivmusic. We use cookies for a number of reasons, such as keeping ft sites reliable and secure, personalising content and ads, providing social media features and to analyse how our sites are used. Schoenbergs pelleas and melisande could have received no treatment more royal than boulez gives it at suntory hall with the gustav mahler youth orchestra.
Debussys pelleas et melisande a discographical survey. The current robert wilson staging, first mounted at the palais garnier in 1997 as a coproduction with the salzburg festival, has now been moved to the ample space of the. Pelleas et melisande lsorattle 3 sacd hybrid plus pure audio bluray by magdalena kozena, christian gerhaher, gerald finley, bernarda fink, london symphony orchestra, london symphony chorus, simon halsey, debussy, sir simon rattle from amazons classical music store. Sibelius, baudo, czech philharmonic pelleas et melisande op 80 music. Although the cast here does not include one native french speaker, boulez. Peter steins wno production evokes the symbolist, early 20thcentury vision of the middle ages as suggested in maeterlincks play.
Debussys pelleas et melisande musicweb international. Ilona domnich melisande simon wallfischpelleas alan ewinggolaud act 4. Pierre boulez, renowned for championing the most daring music of the 20th century, leads this 2003 tokyo concert, played in the presence of japans emperor and empress. The library of congress is hosting the consortium web site which gives bibliographic information on each item. Pelleas and melisande by maurice maeterlinck full text. It was first performed in 1893 the work was very popular. Not a musicologist over here, just a fan of debussys opera. Learn how to pronounce pelleas et melisande and more about the pelleas et melisande word at.
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