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“Pelléas et Mélisande” damps my spirits within ten bars to the extent that it puts me off my supper.
At performances of Pelléas, people get in fat and come-out slim. In psychological terms, at the beginning of the 20th century when the opera got its premiere: they went-in with Wagnerian expectations and left the building cured. That is what Debussy did with his orchestra.
You could have just pressed pause.