Everyone knows Debussy’s early piano piece “Clair de lune” (“Moonlight”), one of the most memorably tuneful pieces in the classical-music repertoire. Fewer people know his scintillating late ballet ...

Claude Debussy died a century ago, but his music has not grown old. Bound only lightly to the past, it floats in time. As it coalesces, bar by bar, it appears to be improvising itself into being—which ...

Claude Debussy's most concentrated and brilliant orchestral work, La Mer, is one of the supreme achievements in the symphonic literature. It is a work of such imagination that it stands apart from ...

Claude Debussy’s Pelléas and Mélisande holds a unique place in the repertoire of turn-of-the-century France. For his only completed opera, Debussy rejected the musical and dramatic conventions of the ...

Debussy’s masterpiece provoked a revolution in music, but one brought about by subtlety and intimacy, dwelling on the sheer beauty of musical timbre. In 1894, Claude Debussy’s quietly revolutionary ...

March 25 th: It’s the Deathiversary of Claude Debussy today, one of the most influential and important composers of the last 100+ years, whose influence is still very much felt. Debussy, probably even ...

IT HAS been said — and is, I fear, something of an aphorism — that two careers may run in a parallel direction; then suddenly, without premonition or intent, may swerve to meet each other, though the ...

Carmen (Bizet) One of the three most beloved operas in the world (joining Aida and La Bohème), Carmen is quite amazingly ridiculous, even by the standards of 19th century entertainment. The saga of a ...