Pelleas et Melisande
A performance of Debussy's opera given at last year's Salzburg Festival. American soprano Dawn Upshaw leads the cast as the enigmatic Princess Melisande, who marries Prince Golaud but is drawn to his younger brother, Pelleas. Robert Wilson's subtle and allusive production makes strikingly creative use of the notoriously wide stage of Salzburg's Grosses Festspielhaus, while in the pit, the playing of Britain's Philharmonia, conducted by Sylvain Cambreling , was, according to critic Michael Kennedy , "as poetic as it was precise".
Vienna State Opera Chorus, Philharmonia, conductor Sylvain Cambreling