Prom 3: Pelléas et Mélisande – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonCelebrating the 150th anniversary of Debussy's birth is naturally one of the themes of this year's Proms. The first of the tributes was also the most ambitious – a performance of his only completed opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner with the period instruments of his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.It was a typical Proms semi-staging; the singers made their entrances and exits, and an armchair and chaise-longue served as the set. P...

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