Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande / De Billy, Dessay, Degout, Naouri [2 DVD]

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Album Summary

Performers

• Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Alto)
• Phillip Ens (Bass)
• Timothy Mirfin (Bass)
• Laurent Naouri (Baritone)
• Natalie Dessay (Soprano)
• Stèphane Degout (Baritone)

Conductor

• De Billy, Bertrand

Ensembles

• Arnold Schoenberg Choir
• Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Composer

• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)

Notes & Reviews:

"There's more to life than top notes," Natalie Dessay has said. She has, of course, made her reputation with the florid, stratospheric heroines of Romantic French and Italian opera, but in this new DVD from Vienna she portrays a heroine who presents few opportunities for vocal display, but many for subtle characterization - Debussy's Melisande. Dessay had sung the role just once before, in concert in Edinburgh in 2005. 'Pelleas et Melisande' is full of ambiguity and its vocal lines closely reflect Maurice Maeterlink's often enigmatic text. A few unaccompanied, ballad-like phrases are the closest Melisande gets to an aria.

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Region: 1
Picture Format: NTSC, Color

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Works Details

Debussy, Claude : Pelléas et Mélisande

• Performers: Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Alto); Phillip Ens (Bass); Timothy Mirfin (Bass); Laurent Naouri (Baritone); Stèphane Degout (Baritone); Natalie Dessay (Soprano)
• Conductor: Bertrand De Billy
• Ensemble: Arnold Schoenberg Choir
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1893-1902