BONE FOR CRITICS IN NEXT NEW OPERA; Even Paris Didn't Take to "Pelleas et Melisande" for a Year or Two. MARY GARDEN TELLS OF IT Beautiful, Subtle, and New -- She Loves it and Hopes That America Will.

Ten years later after Claude Debussy had died Mary Garden again sang Melisande at the Opera-Comique. Lili was there and so was the wealthy woman who had taken her husband from her.

Her Thaïs was brazen and worldly, her Melisande pale and groping, her Louise earthy and free-loving. Following her success abroad, Mary Garden returned to the U.S. in 1907, ...

It premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 30 April 1902 with Jean Périer as Pelléas and Mary Garden as Mélisande in a performance conducted by André Messager, who was instrumental in ...

Mary Garden: The complete Victor recordings, 1926-29 (arias and songs by Charpentier, Bizet, Hahn, Alfano and others; Scottish and English folk songs) Various accompanists and conductors (Romophone).

Graham Vick's production of Pelléas et Mélisande is a feast for the eyes as well as the ears. The set, designed by Paul Brown, is sumptuous: a drawing room with burnished-gold walls, a huge art ...

This may sound like the overdue sequel to Thomas Vinterberg's 1998 Dogme Manifesto film Festen, but it is, in fact, the outline of Claude Debussy's 1902 opera Pelleas Et Melisande.

Cast members of Dallas Opera's production of Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande"performed in a dress rehearsal on Nov. 6, 2024 at Winspear Opera House.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Remember Pelléas et Mélisande, Debussy’s epochal ode to impressionist Weltschmerz? Remember blurs of sound ...

The sucker was Simon Keenlyside’s Pelléas, a boy who believes in love, as boys do, and trusts what a girl says. When he played this role four years ago in a vile production at Covent Garden, I ...