Tag: Pelléas and Mélisande
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Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Pelléas and Mélisande” is a French-styled “Total Work of Art”

The “hero’s welcome” for composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen at the opening night performance of the L.A. Philharmonic’s production of Debussy’s “Pelléas and Mélisande” hit with a refreshing coolness of modesty; with an apropos absence of fanfare perfectly suited to the production at hand. Salonen so casually enters while other philharmonic members are still trickling in that…