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Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet ( French pronunciation: [ʒyl emil fʁedeʁik masnɛ]; [n 1] 12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently staged are Manon (1884) and Werther (1892). He also composed oratorios, ballets, orchestral ...
This is a complete list of operas by the French composer Jules Massenet (1842–1912). Several of Massenet's operas were premiered by the Opéra-Comique in Paris, first at the second Salle Favart (Favart 2), followed by the Théâtre Lyrique on the Place du Châtelet (Lyrique), and then the third Salle Favart (Favart 3).
Jules Massenet photographed by Nadar. "Méditation" ( pronounced [meditasjɔ̃]) is a symphonic intermezzo from the opera Thaïs by French composer Jules Massenet. The piece is written for solo violin, orchestra and backstage chorus. The opera premiered at the Opéra Garnier in Paris on March 16, 1894.
Werther is an opera ( drame lyrique) in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann (who used the pseudonym Henri Grémont). It is loosely based on Goethe's epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, which was based both on fact and on Goethe's own early life.
Crépuscule (Armand Silvestre) Dans l'air plein de fils de soie (Armand Silvestre) Déclaration (Gustave Chouquet) Élégie ( Louis Gallet) Épitaphe (Armand Silvestre) Être aimé (Jules Massenet after Victor Hugo) Feux-follets d'amour (Madeleine Grain) Guitare (Victor Hugo)
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20 June 1894. ( 1894-06-20) Covent Garden, London. La Navarraise ( [la na.va.ʁɛz], "The Woman of Navarre ") is an opera in two acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Jules Claretie and Henri Cain, based on Claretie's short story La cigarette (1890). It was first performed at Covent Garden in London on 20 June 1894, with Emma Calvé in ...
Le Mage ("the Magus") is an opera in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Jean Richepin.It was first performed at the Paris Opéra in Paris on 16 March 1891 in costumes by Charles Bianchini and sets by Auguste Alfred Rubé, Philippe Chaperon and Marcel Jambon (Act I), Amable and Eugène Gardy (Act II), Alfred Lemeunier (Act III), and Jean-Baptiste Lavastre and Eugène Carpezat ...