Pelleas et Melisande

<p>Debussy's sole completed opera was given its premiere at Paris' Opera Comique on April 30 1902. It was the culmination of an eight-year effort on the composer's part. Though not an immediate sensation like Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" two years later in Milan the five-act lyric drama after the identically titled play by Maeterlinck enjoyed a successful run in the first two decades of the 20th century. Debussy's masterpiece of orchestral color is presented in a new digitally-enhanced reprint of the full score first issued by E. Fromont Paris in 1904 with the orchestrational changes made by the composer around 1910.</p><p>SSATBBBB Soli Chorus / Orchestra<br />3d1 2+1 2 3 - 4 3 3 1 timp perc 2hp strs</p><ul> <li>Wikipedia article</li> <li>IMSLP page</li></ul>