Debussy: The Edgar Allan Poe Operas review – an unfinished double bill heard at last

Dazeley/Villanueva/Hartinger/Fan/Dries/Göttinger SO/Mueller(Pan Classics, two CDs)Debussy did not complete any operas after the first performance of Pelléas et Mélisande in 1902. In the wake of that premiere, though, he made plans for no less than three more, and in 1908, after the successful US debut of Pelléas at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, he promised all three of them to that company. One was to be a version of the Tristan and Isolde legend, using a French source of the s...

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