Pelléas et Mélisande

John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Orchestra of the Opéra National de Lyon in this 1987 production of Claude Debussy’s opera of jealously and love denied, “Pelléas et Mélisande”, starring Colette Alliot-Lugaz and François Le Roux in the lead roles. The production places the story in vast gloomy castle halls, a sparse but atmospheric environment that only adds to the opera’s sense of dark beauty entangled with doom.

Country:
Genre:

Music,

Documentary

Duration:

146 minutes

Year:

1987

Director:

Jean-Francois Jung

Cast:
François Le Roux

Pelléas

Colette Alliot-Lugaz

Mélisande

José van Dam

Golaud

Roger Soyer

Arkel

Jocelyne Taillon

Geneviève

Crew:
Claude Debussy

Original Music Composer

Henri Farge

Music Director

John Eliot Gardiner

Music Director

Patrice Cauchetier

Costume Designer

Jean-Francois Jung

Director