Another top shelf Pelléas means it's chacun á son goût.
Debussy
Pelléas et Mélisande
Magdalena Kožená ms, Christian Gerhaher bar, Gerald Finley bar, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Sir Simon Rattle
LSO Live LSO0790 (3SACD)
Claude Debussy only wrote one complete opera but with Pelléas et Mélisande he certainly nailed it. When people compare it to other operas there’s usually only one ever mentioned, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, to which it bears some resemblance in storyline at...
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