DEBUSSY: Pelléas et Mélisande*

DEBUSSY: Pelléas et Mélisande* 30 April. Paris, O.C. Text: M. Maeterlinck’s play (1892), with slight alterations. Five acts. Debussy’s chief work and one of the most important modern operas in general. It was not given on any other stage until 1907. In Paris, the opera had 103 performances until 1914 (100th: 28 January 1913); it was revived after the war (and after the composer’s death) on 9 May 1919, reached the 200th performance on 26 August 1929 and has been given at the O.C. more than 250…