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'PELLEAS ET MELISANDE'

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Opera in five acts
Libretto by Maurice Maeterlinck
Music by Debussy sung in French: on records
Cast in order of singing:
Elisabeth Brasseur Choir
Lamoureux Orchestra
Conducted BY JEAN FOURNET
The time and place arc legendary
Acr I
Scene 1: A forest
Scene 2: A room in the castle
Scene 3: Before the castle
Act 2
Scene 1 : By a spring in the park
Scene 2: A room in the castle
Scene 3: Before a cave
Act 3
Scene 1: One of the castle towers
Scene 2: The castle vaults
Scene 3: A terrace by the entrance to the vaults
Scene 4: Before the cattle

Contributors

Unknown:
Maurice Maeterlinck
Conducted By:
Jean Fournet
Golaud, grandson of Arkel (baritone):
Michel Roux
Melisande (soprano):
Janine Micheau
Geneviève, daughter of Arkel and mother of Golaud and Pelleas (mezzo-soprano):
Rita Gorr
Arkel, king of Allemonde (baritone):
Xavier Depraz
Pelleas, Golaud's half-brother (baritone):
Cairiille Maurane
Yniold, Golaud's young son by his first wife (soprano):
Annik Simon
A shepherd (baritone):
Marcel Vigneron
A physician:
Marcel Vigneron
Source: Radio Times

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