Details

Debussy's masterpiece, Pelleas et Melisande is based on Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist play and was first performed in 1902 at the Opera-Comique, Paris. A tragic fairy-tale, the opera recounts the ill-fated love of half-brothers Golaud and Pelleas for the same woman, the enigmatic Melisande.

Cast/Performers

Karl Daymond (Pelleas), Felicity Hammond (Melisande), Christopher Purves (Golaud), David Gwynne (Arkel), Beverley Mills (Genevieve), Jonathan Hinden (piano), Steven Maughan (piano)

Creatives/Company

Music: Debussy
Company: City of Birmingham Touring Opera
Director(s): Jonathan Hinden (music), Franco Ripa de Meana
Design: Gideon Davey

Pelleas et Melisande

Pelleas et Melisande (Opera or Operetta) production archive for QTIX code T807237972. Details of all Pelleas et Melisande archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S1733091292

Archive Listings

25 Mar 00	Snape Maltings Concert Hall Aldeburgh, Suffolk Performance Details => Venue archive
20 Mar 00	Theatre Royal Wakefield Wakefield, West Yorkshire Performance Details => Venue archive
5 Mar 00	Theatre Royal Bath, Bath & North East Somerset Performance Details => Venue archive
29 Feb 00	The Wightman Shrewsbury, Shropshire Performance Details => Venue archive
26 Feb 00	Theatre Royal York, North Yorkshire Performance Details => Venue archive
24 Feb 00	Anvil Arts Basingstoke, Hampshire Performance Details => Venue archive
22 Feb 00	Corn Exchange Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Performance Details => Venue archive
18 Feb 00 to 19 Feb 00	Ladywood Arts and Leisure Centre Birmingham, West Midlands Performance Details => Venue archive

Reviews

The Daily Telegraph: 11Jan01:
Despite their best efforts, the cast failed to inject any emotional reality. [Felicity Hammond] s adequately sung Melisande just couldn t radiate the allure and mystery on which the plot is premised. [Karl Daymond] sounded uncomfortable as Pelleas and [David Gwynne] was a hammy old Arkel. At the end, the audience filed out in pious silence as though it had just endured some intolerably long and tedious church service.

User Reviews

The Daily Telegraph (11Jan01): Despite their best efforts, the cast failed to inject any emotional reality. [Felicity Hammond] s adequately sung Melisande just couldn t radiate the allure and mystery on which the plot is premised. [Karl Daymond] sounded uncomfortable as Pelleas and [David Gwynne] was a hammy old Arkel. At the end, the audience filed out in pious silence as though it had just endured some intolerably long and tedious church service.

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