Film

Pelleas et Melisande

20152h 54m

Director: Peter Sellars
Year: 2015

Berliner Philharmoniker

Thriller, intimate play, relationship drama: Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande is all that and much more. The New York Times wrote about this performance with Simon Rattle: “The result exceeds even the expectations raised by the Bach Passions. Peter Sellars perfectly conveys the human essence of Maurice Maeterlinck's drama. The singers are as great as one could wish for.

Top cast

Magdalena Kožená

Melisande

Christian Gerhaher

Pelleas

Franz-Josef Selig

Arkel

Gerald Finley

Golaud

Elias Mädler

Yniold

Simon Rattle

Conductor

Directed by

Peter Sellars

Written by

Claude Debussy