Pelléas et Mélisande | Opera review

Holland Park, LondonPelléas et Mélisande isn't ideal for Opera Holland Park. Though much of it takes place out of doors, it doesn't lend itself easily to an open-air theatre. Debussy's soundworld is so hermetically self-contained that the extraneous noises – the distant hum of the city, birdsong, the slap of rain on tarpaulin – seep into the score's textures and threaten its fabric.There are intrusions in Olivia Fuchs's production, too. They come in the form of a corps de ballet of girls i...

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