Debussy's sole completed opera was given its premiere at Paris' Opera Comique on April 30, 1902. It was the culmination of an eight-year effort on the composer's part. Though not an immediate sensation like Puccini's 'Madame Butterfly' two years later in Milan, the five-act lyric drama, after the identically titled play by Maeterlinck, enjoyed a successful run in the first two decades of the 20th century. Debussy's masterpiece of orchestral color is presented in a new, digitally-enhanced reprint of the full score first issued by E. Fromont, Paris, in 1904, with the orchestrational changes made by the composer around 1910.SSATBBBB Soli, Chorus / Orchestra 3d1, 2+1, 2, 3 - 4, 3, 3, 1, timp, perc, 2hp, strs Wikipedia article IMSLP page 3
