Samantha Hankey and Huw Montague Rendall in Debussy’s Pelleas et Melisande at Santa Fe Opera. Photo: Curtis Brown/SFO
SANTA FE: Santa Fe Opera has served up a connoisseur’s season this summer, with only one obvious crowd-pleaser on offer in Puccini’s Tosca. At the top of a rotation perhaps better suited to critics than general audiences is Claude Debussy’s masterpiece Pelléas et Mélisande, last mounted here in 1977. Seen at its third performance Friday night, this enigmatic work from 1902 proved an…

