Table of Contents

1. Introduction; Part I. The Operas: 2. Before Pelléas: Axel, Rodrigue et Chimene and other early projects, including Diane au bois; 3. Pelléas et Méllsande (1893–5, 1901–2); 4. After Pelléas: the Poe operas (Le diable daps le beffroi, La chute de la Maison Usher); Part II. The Ballets: 5. Khamma (1911–13); 6. Nijinsky and Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (1909–13); 7. La boite a joujoux (1913); 8. The Alhambra Theatre: No-ja-li or Le palais du silence and Printemps (1913–14); 9. Crimen amoris, later Fetes galantes (1912–15); Part III. Incidental Music For The Theatre: 10. Le martyre de Saint Sebastien (1911); 11. The remaining incidental music (1899–1913) and the plays written in collaboration with René Peter; Part IV. Incomplete And Unstarted Projects; 12. As you like it; Lout's, Segalen and the projects from Pelléas onwards (1895–1917); Part V. In Perspective: 13. Debussy in and about the theatre: some observations and conclusions.

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Debussy and the Theatre means, in effect, 'Debussy and Pellias et Milisande', the opera both established Debussy's mature style and changed the course of operatic history.