Pelléas et Mélisande (2)

les voix sont belles mais la mise en scène ne me plait pas...

Je suis en d'accord avec vous. La mise en scene et terrible.  Mais la musique et les voix sont merveilleux..

The Mise en Scene is brilliant, its witty and surreal. I'd live there.

Although I am glad that you are pleased with the performance, still, I think that M Debussy would not be. He was very particular about how this was to be performed, and, since he set many of the "Symbolist" poets' works, he was well aware of the importance of the physical symbols that Maertlinck used in his play.

he's dead, we're not.

he doesn't get a vote.

maybe you should learn a little more french before trying to use it to comment

This music flows beautifully... it must be very difficult to sing it and act it at the same time, bearing in mind how fascinated Debussy was with movement and fugacity....

woo this is a splendid cast!!
I find it a piece difficult to listen to on record, but i saw it in the theatre and was caught by the music : I mean it does not suffer outside distraction, and really grows on you.
It helped that i saw it with barbara hendrix, le roux, bacquier et denize..., wich I think was one of the best possible cast at the time...

of massenet, sorry.

Debussy reminds me dvorack and wagner, with a little bit od massenet.