Pelléas and Mélisande (French: Pelléas et Mélisande) is a Symbolist play by Maurice Maeterlinck about the forbidden doomed love of the title characters. It was first performed in 1893.The work was very popular. It was adapted as an opera by the composer Claude Debussy and it inspired other contemporary composers for instance Gabriel Fauré Arnold Schoenberg and Jean Sibelius.
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Maurice Maeterlinck
character in play
Physician, Servants, Little Yniold son of Golaud (by a former marriage), Arkël king of Allemonde, Beggars, Geneviève mother of Pelléas and Golaud, Golaud grandson of Arkël, Mélisande, Pelléas grandson of Arkël, Porter
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