“Mélisande” by Florent Hubert and stage director Richard Brunel is a post-modern reading of Claude Debussy and Maurice Maeterlinck’s masterpiece “Pelléas et Mélisande.” The music was completely rearranged to be played by five instruments, and many characters and scenes were chopped off. Given the fact that Debussy’s opera is a theatrical and musical colossus, what does one gain by destroying {…}