Pelleas et Melisande

Claude Debussy's fairy tale-based opera +Pell?as et M?lisande 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 Maeterlinck's 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 Debussy's canon. This particular production emerged from the Opernhaus Z?rich in 2004. It stars Rodney Gilfry as Pell?as, Isabel Rey as M?lisande and Michael Volle as Golaud. Franz Welser-M?st conducts the Zurich Opera Orchestra; Sven-Eric Bectholf directs for the stage.