Word: maeterlinck
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...Maeterlinck's understatements, Debussy gave a sheeny, translucent orchestral background, a tonal tapestry winding on & on with never a big aria or ensemble piece for the singers. The love avowal of Pelleas & Mélisande ("I love you." "I love you, too.") is sung to a magnificent orchestral silence. The opera therefore demands and gets reverent handling from singers who can look and act poetic on the stage. The first Mélisande, in 1902, was Mary Garden, who was given the role by the director of the Paris Opera Comique, although Debussy had agreed that Maeterlinck...
...their deplorable, inevitable fixes, they inevitably thrash their arms, square off at high Cs. Not so the hero and heroine of Pelleas et Mélisande, Achille-Claude Debussy's 40-year-old opera (his only completed one) based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck. Laid in "an unknown land" in a vaguely medieval time, Pelleas is elusive, dreamy, half-said, half-unsaid. Of all her troubles, Mélisande never says anything more complaining than: "Je ne suis pas heureuse" (I am not happy...
...Blue Bird (20th Century-Fox). Votaries of mystic Belgian Playwright Maurice Maeterlinck may be puzzled to find a wild-west forest fire blazing in the middle of this much publicized screen version of his fantasy, The Blue Bird. They have other surprises in store for them...
...Mytyl, the little sister in Maeterlinck's play, has become the picture's leading character to provide a part for Shirley Temple...
...before had ever managed to steal the great U. S. radio Christmas show from Tiny Tim. But this year Shirley Temple stole into millions of U. S. homes on Christmas Eve, twinkling after Happiness in a wide-eyed episode from Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird. She said pretty Merrys to everybody, blended her fair treble with Baritone Nelson Eddy in an unprecedented Silent Night...