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Title: Pelleas & Melisande
Condition: New
Author: Claude Debussy
Translator: Hugh Macdonald
Contributor: John Nicholas (Edited by), Hugh Macdonald (Translated by)
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
EAN: 9780714544137
ISBN: 9780714544137
Publisher: Overture Publishing
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Release Date: 07/02/2011
Description: In this Guide to Pelleas and Melisande, Maeterlinck's original play is reprinted in full, so that the opera lover can read the scenes that Debussy did not set to music. Hugh Macdonald's much praised English translation is published here for the first time, with an essay uncovering the musical roots of Pelleas and Melisande and illustrating its importance to the music of the twentieth century. Alain Raitt, author of several studies of Symbolist writers, evaluates Maeterlinck's status as a dramatist, and Roger Nichols analyses the score. Proust's short pastiche of the opera and Arthur Symons's review of the first English performances challenge us to come to terms with this eternally intriguing masterpiece.
Language: French
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 215mm
Item Length: 140mm
Item Weight: 147g
Book Series: Calder Opera Guides in Association with the English National Opera (ENO)
Release Year: 2011

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