Claude Debussy's fairy tale-based opera Pelléas et Mélisande is by now well known; at once a tale of doomed love and a meditation on the cycle of creation and destruction (adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's 1893 symbolist play), it originally premiered in 1902 to mixed critical reception, but has since become a staple of the operatic repertory and one of the most popular works from Debussy's canon. This particular production emerged from the Opernhaus Zürich in 2004. It stars Rodney Gilfry as Pelléas, Isabel Rey as Mélisande and Michael Volle as Golaud. Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Zurich Opera Orchestra; Sven-Eric Bectholf directs for the stage.
Felix Breisach
Director
Maurice Maeterlinck
Writer
Franz Welser-Möst
Conductor

Rodney Gilfry
Pelléas

Isabel Rey
Mélisande

Michael Volle
Golaud

László Polgár
Arkel

Cornelia Kallisch
Geneviève
Eva Liebau
Yniold
Guido Götzen
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