Pelléas et Mélisande

Pelléas et Mélisande

146 mins | Documentary, Music | Dec. 31, 1987

John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Orchestra of the Opéra National de Lyon in this 1987 production of Claude Debussy’s opera of jealously and love denied, “Pelléas et Mélisande”, starring Colette Alliot-Lugaz and François Le Roux in the lead roles. The production places the story in vast gloomy castle halls, a sparse but atmospheric environment that only adds to the opera’s sense of dark beauty entangled with doom.

Pelléas et Mélisande

146 mins | Documentary, Music | Dec. 31, 1987

Pelléas et Mélisande
John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Orchestra of the Opéra National de Lyon in this 1987 production of Claude Debussy’s opera of jealously and love denied, “Pelléas et Mélisande”, starring Colette Alliot-Lugaz and François Le Roux in the lead roles. The production places the story in vast gloomy castle halls, a sparse but atmospheric environment that only adds to the opera’s sense of dark beauty entangled with doom.
Producers
Original title Pelléas et Mélisande
Directors Jean-Francois Jung, Pierre Strosser
Writers

Cast

François Le Roux

as Pelléas

Colette Alliot-Lugaz

as Mélisande

José van Dam

as Golaud

Roger Soyer

as Arkel

Jocelyne Taillon

as Geneviève

Françoise Golfier

as Yniold

René Schirrer

as Il medico

Frank Morazanni

as Un pastore

Suzanne Vial

as Serva

Christine Rodu

as Serva