From Newsgroup: rec.music.opera

On Wednesday, June 8, 2005 at 8:06:35 PM UTC-7, Clarissa wrote:

Hello all,
Some works of art sum up the past, some presage the future - amongst
operas, one thinks of Mozart's in the first category, of Tristan or
Falstaff or Wozzeck in the second.
Pelleas et Melisande seems to do neither.
Obviously Debussy was anything but a composer insulated from outside influences, but Pelleas belongs to no line and (unlike Debussy's piano
and orchestral works) has no imitators.
However, if the work is something of a dead end, it is anything but
sterile; in fact, every time one hears it, one is more convinced than
ever that it is a work of outstanding, uncanny beauty, of incredibly perceptive imagination, and its very lack of followers is some
indication that what it has to say has been said once and for all.
It is an immensely sophisticated, so full of sensitivity, subtlety, eloquence, and genius.
What has been your experience?

Clarissa

(Youtube upload):
"'Secrets and Lies' or the Truth about Debussy's Pell|-as et M|-lisande - Katherine Bergeron"
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