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
Poster by Georges Rochegrosse for the premiere
Maurice Maeterlinck
The first Mélisande, Mary Garden
Jean Périer as Pelléas
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
Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)
…Maeterlinck's symbolist play of the same name. It premiered at the Salle Favart in Paris by the Opéra-Comique on 30 April 1902; Jean Périer was Pelléas and Mary Garden was Mélisande, conducted by André Messager, who was instrumental in getting the Opéra-Comique to stage the work. It is the only opera Debussy ever…
Mary Garden
Mary Garden, 1905
Mary Garden in the opera Thaïs