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DESCRIPTION:Apr 15-19\, 2026\nA lost hunter—a widowed prince—discovers 
 a traumatized waif by a pool in the forest\, takes her home to the family 
 castle\, takes her to wife\, only to lose her to his half-brother. A sad t
 ale\, full of Gothic echoes—and for many aficionados\, an everlastingly 
 unrewarding one. For others\, the shadowy goings-on\, talky musical dialog
 ue\, and misty yet oceanic turbulence of Debussy’s orchestra cast a spel
 l they have no wish ever to break. Right now\, such fans have two new irre
 sistible prospects. A new Pelléas et Mélisande at the Teatro alla Scala\
 , Milan\, is designed\, staged\, and lit by Romeo Castellucci\, whose visi
 ons establish their own disorienting gravitational fields. The prospective
  standout in the cast is the biker baritone Simon Keenlyside\, whose rugge
 d grace used to shine in the role of the naïve\, otherworldly kid brother
  Pelléas. But now\, he’s the bearish hunter Golaud\, a character equall
 y worthy of his empathy. And in Toronto\, Opéra Atélier joins forces wit
 h the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra to air the Canadian performer-scholar C
 hristopher Bagan’s adaptation of Debussy’s score for their early-music
  instrumentarium. Perverse? Maybe not. Maeterlinck’s poisoned fairy tale
  of a stage play Pelléas et Mélisande\, which Debussy trimmed but did no
 t otherwise noticeably alter\, traces its roots to Perrault’s Mother Goo
 se Tales from the age of Louis XIV. Neither Perrault nor Maeterlinck was w
 riting for children\, but whereas the former peddled avuncular moral uplif
 t\, the latter wrote from a place of overstimulated senses and moral exhau
 stion. What a difference a few centuries make.
LOCATION:Telus Center for the Performing Arts\, 273 Bloor St W\, Toronto\, 
 ON M5S 1W2\, Canada\, Canada
SUMMARY:Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande x 2
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