Mary Garden
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Mary Garden was a Scottish-American operatic lyric soprano, then mezzo-soprano, with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th century. She spent the latter part of her
Mary Garden
Mary Garden, 1905
Mary Garden as Mélisande in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande
Mary Garden in the opera Thaïs
Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)
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Pelléas et Mélisande is an opera in five acts with music by Claude Debussy. The French libretto was adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist play of the same name. It premiered at the Salle Favart
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…She became the leading soprano at the Opéra-Comique; notably portraying roles in several world premieres, including Mélisande in Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande (1902). She worked closely with Jules Massenet, in whose operas she excelled. Massenet notably wrote the title role in his opera Chérubin (1905) for…
Poster by Georges Rochegrosse for the premiere
Maurice Maeterlinck
Jean Périer as Pelléas