Pelléas et Mélisande by Debussy, tor 31 maj 2018, Från (2018/2018), Regisserad av Ruth Berghaus, Dirigent Daniel Barenboim, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, Tyskland

With the premiere of "Pelléas und Mélisande" in 1902, Claude Debussy challenged the listening habits of his contemporaries: his art of instrumentation is sophisticated and innovative, he also transfers the Wagnerian leitmotif technique into a subtle dramaturgy of tonal colors and describes atmospheres and moods of the soul that elude description and even the Music can often only suggest. The material basis is the drama of the same name by the Flemish symbolist Maurice Maeterlinck, a tragically ending fairytale love triangle about the stepbrothers Golaud and Pelléas and the mysterious Mélisande, whom they both love. The plot remains vague, but psychological depths are explored. The tragedy does not take place as an open conflict, but as a subliminal mental process. Debussy's music also remains subdued and repeatedly approaches silence. However, beneath the monochrome surface, the most diverse colors shimmer, and Debussy succeeds in translating the enigmatic, morbid atmosphere into music in a congenial way. In 1991 Ruth Berghaus, one of the greatest directors of the 20th century, staged the stage work at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden,