Into a world of dreams.

A century or so ago (in 1892 to be exact) Belgian born Maurice Maeterlink wrote his symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande. Maeterlink's work exploring doomed love inspired the "magnifiques pages de Fauré, Sibelius et Schoenberg" and the entire opera's worth of pages by Debussy which in turn shape Lyon auditorium's recently announced 2007-08 season. The season's concert programme is full of colour (Falla and Tchaikosky); nineteenth-century splendour (Wagner, Brahms, Bruckner; the all important pinch of succesful sentimentality (Rachmaninov) and, bien sûr, lots of French offerings (Debussy, Ravel, Faure, Ibert, Offenbach, Dukas,Saint-Saens,Bizet, Poulenc, Messiean, Dalbavie, Dutilluex). Think I'll have to pop back to Lyon once in a while!