Claude Debussy's fairy tale-based opera Pelléas et Mélisande 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 Zürich in 2004. It stars Rodney Gilfry as Pelléas, Isabel Rey as Mélisande and Michael Volle as Golaud. Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Zurich Opera Orchestra; Sven-Eric Bectholf directs for the stage.
Franz Welser-Möst
as Conductor
Rodney Gilfry
as Pelléas
Isabel Rey
as Mélisande
Michael Volle
as Golaud
László Polgár
as Arkel
Cornelia Kallisch
as Geneviève
Eva Liebau
as Yniold
Guido Götzen
as un médecin / un berger
