Melisande
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Melisande can refer to:
- Melisande of JerusalemMelisende of JerusalemMelisende was Queen of Jerusalem from 1131 to 1153, and regent for her son between 1153 and 1161 while he was on campaign. She was the eldest daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, and the Armenian princess Morphia of Melitene. She was named after her paternal grandmother, Melisende of...
, the daughter of Baldwin II - Melisande (Stokes)Melisande (Stokes)Melisande is the name of a painting by the Austrian painter Marianne Stokes. It was painted with tempera on canvas, 1895-1898. It is currently at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, Germany....
, a painting - Melisande Shahrizai, the primary villainess of Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series
- Pelléas and MélisandePelléas and MélisandePelléas and Mélisande is a Symbolist play by Maurice Maeterlinck about the forbidden, doomed love of the title characters. It was first performed in 1893....
, a symbolist play by Maurice Maeterlinck, and the name of one of its main characters - Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)Pelléas et Mélisande is an opera in five acts with music by Claude Debussy. The French libretto was adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's Symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande...
, an adaptation of Maeterlinck's play by Claude Debussy