MyWiki:WikiProject Opera/SotM/January2009

The Opera of the Month for January is Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy. We would like to expand this to at least B Class. Work on articles related to this opera and its composer includes:

Singers connected with Pelléas et Mélisande

• Articles for improvement: Jean Périer (the first Pelleas, needs clean up); Georgette Leblanc (Maeterlinck's wife and originally scheduled to sing Mélisande, needs expansion and better referencing); Hector Dufranne (the first Golaud, needs expansion)
• Articles needed: Félix Vieuille (the first Arkël)

Other operas by Debussy

• Articles needed: Rodrigue et Chimène (based on Le Cid); Le diable dans le beffroi (based on Poe's "The Devil in the Belfry", unfinished); La chute de la maison Usher (based on Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher", unfinished)

Other operas based on plays by Maeterlinck

• Articles for improvement: Ariane et Barbe-bleue (not well sourced and lacks synopsis and premiere singers)
• Articles needed: Monna Vanna by Henry Février