Pelléas and Mélisande
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Pelléas and Mélisande is a Symbolist play by the Belgian playwright and author Maurice Maeterlinck, first performed in 1893. The play is about the forbidden, doomed love of the title characters.
Pelléas et Mélisande – illustrations by Léon Spilliaert (1903)
Elleas And Melisande (1913) by English artist Sidney Harold Meteyard
Poster for Claude Debussy's 1902 opera based on the play
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
Pelléas and Mélisande
…performed in 1893. The play is about the forbidden, doomed love of the title characters. The work never achieved great success on stage, apart from the operatic setting by Claude Debussy, but was at the time widely read and admired by the symbolist literary elite, such as Strindberg and Rilke. It inspired other…
Maurice Maeterlinck
The first Mélisande, Mary Garden
Jean Périer as Pelléas