La soirée n’a pas été des meilleures

The main musical satisfaction of this new Pelléas et Mélisande was the intense playing of the Philharmonia Orchestra

Garsington Opera’s provocative and compelling staging of Pelléas et Mélisande

Andrea Carroll makes a bewitching Mélisande in Debussy’s decadent opera

Light and shade

Andrea Carroll’s Mélisande is her UK debut and it’s an impressive one

Michael Boyd directs and the Philharmonia Orchestra plays Debussy's opera

Boyd brings the opera’s dreams and mysteries into landscapes that are lit, symbolically and figuratively, with precision

Fresh light on Debussy's mysterious fairytale

Andrea Carroll’s exquisite performance is the highlight of this mixed staging of Debussy’s only opera

Positively amateurish

Boyd treads a fine line between realism and poetic evasiveness