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Debussy - Pelleas et Melisande | TDK DVBDOPPEM

Debussy - Pelleas et Melisande

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Label: TDK

Cat No: DVBDOPPEM

Barcode: 0807280802290

Format: Blu-ray

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 15th February 2010

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Contents

Artists

Rodney Gilfry
Isabel Rey
Michael Volle
Laszlo Polgar
Orchestra & Chorus of the Zurich Opera House

Conductor

Franz Welser-Most

Works

Debussy, Claude

Pelleas et Melisande

Artists

Rodney Gilfry
Isabel Rey
Michael Volle
Laszlo Polgar
Orchestra & Chorus of the Zurich Opera House

Conductor

Franz Welser-Most

About

A mysteroius child-like woman, a murder by jealousy, an orphan: Debussy’s Pelléas et Méllisande, his only completed opera, is full of magical, cryptical and deeply symbolic moments. With this work, Debussy added quite literally a new dimension to the 1893 stage play of the same name by Belgian playwriter and poet, Maurice Maeterlinck, who was to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911.

Rodney Gilfry, a leading American opera baritone whose vocal excellence has been repeatedly extolled by many leading music critics, is Pelléas. Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle for his “rich, rolling baritone with a superb upper range” as well as his “vivid stage presence”, Rodney Gilfry has established himself as a most compelling musician on the world’s operatic stages.

By his side is Isabel Rey, internationally recognised for her exquisite vocal technique and her sensitive acting skills, as Mélisande. T
he cold dream-world of the subconscious emerges to the audience through her crystal-clear soprano and the winterly stage setting.

Under Franz Welser-Möst’s fabulous conducting, this production of the Zurich Opera House sets musical standards. Welser-Möst is exceptionally talented and internationally known as one of the outstanding personalities in the field of classical music.
He has developed one of the leading teams in contemporary music theatre alongside the director Sven-Eric Bechtolf.

Cast:
- Pelléas: Rodney Gilfry
- Mélisande: Isabel Rey
- Golaud: Michael Volle
- Arkel: László Polgár

Director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf
Set Design: Rolf Glittenberg

Live recording from the Zurich Opera House, 2004.

This production is unique and you hardly can elude the musical and visual maelstrom.” - Fonoforum

Sound Format: PCM Stereo, dts-HD Master Audio 7.1
Picture Format: 16:9
Resolution: 1080i FULL HD
Subtitle Languages: GB, DE, FR, ES, IT
Running Time: 161 mins
Blu-ray Disc: 50 GB (Dual Layer)
FSK: 0
Region Code: Worldwide

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