Хамфри Бертон Debussy"s masterpiece, Pelleas et Melisande, is based on Maurice Maeterlinck"s symbolist play - a tragic fairytale, which recounts the ill-fated love of half-brothers Golaud and Pelleas for the same woman, the enigmatic Melisande. Haunting and intensely atmospheric, Debussy"s score continues where language ends, articulating the dream-like inner worlds of the doomed lovers. Melodic vocal lines and motifs resurface throughout the opera like snatched memories. "...I have rarely heard Debussy sound richer, or [he dying fail of the last act fade more poignantly into infinite darkness." The Daily Telegraph "...the cast is on top form. John Tomiinson"s Goiaud is superb...Chhstiane Oelze is a mix of elusive glamour and vulnerability" Time Out