A woman with a past and a masterpiece with a future

The Independent on Sunday | November 23, 2008| | Copyright

Classical Pelleas et Melisande - Independent Opera Lillian Baylis Studio LONDON The Cumnor Affair - Tete-a-Tete Riverside Studios LONDON

When Stephen McNeff was commissioned to reorchestrate Pelleas et Melisande for Independent Opera's 35 players in the tiny Lillian Baylis Studio, he worried that it would be like "scrawling graffiti on the Eiffel Tower". Instead, by using horns and bassoons in place of trombones, returning to the interludes that were deemed too short for the set-changes in the 1902 premiere and deftly reallocating the divisi strings, he has exposed the human frame of ...

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