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Just a few weeks after its controversial premiere of Debussy's Pelleas, et Melisande, Zurich scheduled the first local production of Paul Dukas's Ariane at Barbe-Bleue, thus presenting two Maeterlinck-derived operas within the same season. It was a veritable coup of program-planning, as if to settle for good the often-made claim that Ariane is the weak sister of Melisande. Under the electrifying musical leadership of John Eliot Gardiner, Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (seen January 16) emerged as a solidly rooted specimen of French fin de siecle music-theater. Not only were...
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