Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande ***
Glyndebourne, 30th June 2018
Claude Debussy was no stranger to Sussex. In 1905, he corrected the proofs of La Mer while staying at the Grand Hotel, Eastbourne. But did he ever make it to Lewes or call in at Glyndebourne? It was decades before John Christie established his opera festival and there would have been no Organ Room in the manor house by this stage, but this doesn’t stop Stefan Herheim choosing it as the setting for his new production of Pelléas et Mélisande. Christopher Purves’ Golaud, with side-parting, goatee beard and tweeds, bears an uncanny resemblance to Debussy himself.
John Chest (Pelléas) and Christina Gansch (Mélisande)
© Richard Hubert Smith
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