Golaud Monologue from Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home

From Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home by Maurice Maeterlinck

male · dark · 1:04 min

They are prodigious great; it is a succession of enormous crypts that end, God knows where. The whole castle is builded on these crypts. Do you smell the deathly odor that reigns here?--That is what I wished, to show you. In my opinion, it comes from the little underground lake I am going to have you see. Take care; walk before me, in the light of my lantern. I will warn you when we are there, (They continue to walk in silence.) Hey! hey! Pélléas! stop! stop!-- (He seizes him by the arm.) For God's sake!... Do you not see?--One step more, and you had been in the gulf!... PÉLLÉAS But I did not see it!... The lantern no longer lighted me....

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