Pellaas et Melisande (Complete opera)

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Pellaas et Melisande (Complete opera)
Camille Maurane; Erna Spoorenberg; George London; L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - Ernest Ansermet

[ Decca Compact Opera / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 10 April 2003

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This is the first release on CD of this particular recording.

Pelléas et Mélisande is Debussy's only completed opera, a work which occupied him between 1893 -1901. It is regarded as Debussy's finest achievement and it holds a place as one of the most important operas in the history of that genre.
In this opera Debussy combines the symbolism of Maeterlinck's play with music of great colour and restraint. The first performance was given at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique in Paris on 30 April 1902.
This is the first release on CD of this particular recording and is the second that the great Debussy interpreter Ernest Ansemet committed to disc in 1964.

Pelléas: Camille Maurane
Mélisande: Erna Spoorenberg
Golaud:George London
Arkel:Guus Hoekman
Geneviève:Josephine Veasey
Yniold:Rosine Brèdy
The Doctor:John Shirley-Quirk
A shepherd:Gregore Kubrack