Pelleas et Melisande [Alf:36-A229291]

Claude Debussy's (1862-1918) Pellİas et Mİlisande adapted Maurice Maeterlinck's play of the same name in which Prince Golaud marries a mysterious young woman, Mİlisande, but becomes jealous of his half-brother Pellİas when he suspects a relationship between the two. Maeterlinck's play was in prose rather than verse, which allowed Debussy to use the text directly unlike others of his time. After Debussy completed a short score of his only opera in 1895, the full orchestration and revisions were made for the premiere given on April 30, 1902 at the Thİ˘tre de l'Opİra-Comique in Paris, France. Noteworthy for the absence of arias and set pieces, Pellİas et Mİlisande is still regularly staged today.