Overview

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.

Top Cast

François Le Roux

Pelléas

Colette Alliot-Lugaz

Mélisande

José van Dam

Golaud

Roger Soyer

Arkel

Jocelyne Taillon

Geneviève

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Françoise Golfier

Yniold

R

René Schirrer

Il medico

F

Frank Morazanni

Un pastore

D

Danielle Merle Lanza

Serva

S

Suzanne Vial

Serva

C

Christine Rodu

Serva

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Orchestre et Choeur de l'Opéra de Lyon

Orchestra