Massenet reviews
French Music for the Stage
Villa-Lobos: Choral Transcriptions
Massenet: Visions; Brumaire - Overture, etc
Massenet: Don Quichotte (Bregenz, 2019)
Anima Rara
Massenet: Don César de Bazan
Nuits
Massenet: Thaïs
Massenet: Werther
Arias by Arakishvili, Bizet, Verdi, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mascagni & Gounod
Belle Epoque
French Arias
Escales
Adagietto (Maisky)
French Cello Concertos: Works by Saint-Saëns, Lalo, Massenet, Milhaud & Offenbach
Massenet: Cendrillon
Benjamin Bernheim
Majesty – Operatic Arias
Oh, Boy! Arias by Gluck-Berlioz, Meyerbeer, Mozart, Offenbach, Thomas, Hahn, Gounod, Massenet & Chabrier sung by Marianne Crebassa
In little more than a decade Marianne Crebassa has established herself in the first rank of a new generation of mezzo-sopranos. A former Paris Opera young artist, she sings at Salzburg and Berlin as well as in Paris, and has already made her American debut in Chicago.
An explosive production of Massenet's masterpiece
'Director Tatjana Gürbaca and designer Klaus Grünberg have transformed Massenet’s masterpiece into a compelling drama that glues you to the edge of your seat from start to finish.'
Massenet
Werther (DVD)
Juan Diego Flórez, Anna Stéphany, Mélissa Petit, Audun Iversen, etc; Chor der Oper Zürich; Philharmonia Zürich/Cornelius Meister; dir. Tatjana Gürbaca (Zürich, 2017)
Accentus ACC 20427 137:36 mins
Massenet
The supreme operatic craftsman of the Belle Époque, Jules Massenet was a theatrical chameleon, able to lend each of his operas a unique musical colouring across a wide spectrum of historical and fictional settings. This new collection seems designed to show that his orchestral works are equally kaleidoscopic.
Massenet Don Quichotte
La Monnaie’s 2010 production of Massenet’s Don Quichotte was mounted to mark both the work’s centenary and the farewell performances of the distinguished Belgian bass José van Dam. Van Dam has long excelled in the title role, while the opera was Massenet’s last great success. The sexagenarian composer imbued its bittersweet tale of an old man’s idealistic love for an unobtainable beauty with all the valedictory heartache of an intentional swansong.
Massenet Cendrillon