Opera Explained: DEBUSSY - Pelleas et Melisande (Smillie)

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An Introduction to... DEBUSSY Pelleas et Melisande (more info)
Composed by: Thomson Smillie
David Timson, reader


1.   Introduction to Claude Debussy - 4:08
2.   The influence of Wagner and atonality - 3:14
3.   Debussy's childhood and development - 5:47
4.   Maurice Maeterlinck - 4:50
5.   The story and opening - 5:28
6.   Golaud encounters Melisande - 5:07
7.   King Arkel's acceptance and the entrance of Pelleas - 5:44
8.   Pelleas and Melisande together - 4:41
9.   Golaud lies ill - 5:12
10.   Melisande at the window and Golaud's suspicion - 6:15
11.   Golaud uses Yniold - 4:45
12.   Act IV: Pelleas to depart; Arkel and Melisande; Golaud's anger - 5:51
13.   Yniold's scene; the love duet - 4:46
14.   Pelleas: 'We have broken the ice with red hot irons' - 6:07
15.   Act V - 6:48

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