1. 1 Maurice Maeterlink, The Treasure of the Humble, trans. Alfred Sutro (London, 1911), 194.
2. 2 Claude Debussy, libretto based on the play by
3. Maurice Maeterlink, in French and English, trans. Paul Myers, published with Claude Debussy, Pelleas et Melisande, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, EMI 7 49350 2.
4. All quotations from the libretto, in French and in translation, are from the notes to this recording.
5. 3 Cf. Vladimir Jankelevitch, Debussy et le mystere (Neuchatel, 1949); and Catherine Clement, Opera, or the Undoing of Women, trans. Betsy Wing (Minneapolis, 1988).