Résonances Lyriques

One wonders why we can speak of a “Pelléas Moment” – a suspended and unique moment – in connection with the premiere of Pelléas et Mélisande at the Opéra-Comique in 1902, when all the elements that cumulate in the opera were already present, but scattered, in the musical context of the time? To give you an idea: the continuous melody (Wagner, Mussorgsky…), an opera without a libretto but composed directly from a literary work (a subject debated by Gounod), a naturalistic register