Debussy - Text and Ideas: The Truth about Pelléas

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Katherine Bergeron focuses her attention on the last act of Pelléas. The narrative incongruities that surface in the unbroken final scene become the basis for a broader exploration of the question of truth (la vérité) that the opera itself raises.

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This event was on Thu, 12 Apr 2012

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Katherine Bergeron

Professor of musicology and Dean of the College at Brown University (USA), Katherine Bergeron's research deals with French cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries, with...

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