Pelléas et Mélisande

Claude Debussys fairy talebased 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 Maeterlincks 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 Debussys 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 WelserMöst conducts the Zurich Opera Orchestra SvenEric Bectholf directs for the stage