Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director Katherine M. Carter and mezzo soprano Lisa Chavez are working from a mostly blank slate toward the opening of Jules ...

"Werther" by Jules Massenet returns to the stage at San Carlo nineteen years after the Neapolitan debut of the historic Oper ...

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The Spoleto Festival Orchestra will perform during the opera “Thais.” Credit: Spoleto Festival USA. Spoleto Festival USA will present Jules Massenet’s little-known 1893 opera “Thaïs,” directed by ...

Operas come together in all sorts of ways. Companies usually plan their seasons years in advance, but there are exceptions. Jules Massenet’s “Werther,” onstage at Houston Grand Opera between Jan. 27 ...

Mariko Anraku, associate principal harpist at the Metropolitan Opera, and Emmanuel Pahud, principal flutist of the Berlin Philharmonic, get together to play chamber music. We feature the famous ...

But one hundred years later, producers still scoff at Jules Massenet’s work Not that Massenet is forgotten. Opera singers revive his work because they find his music fun to sing. Unlike a Puccini ...

The playtext is inscribed: ‘This book — this wonderful book — was decorated for me by Max Beerbohm: and by me given to Robert Ross. Oscar Wilde. Paris.’ It also contains an ink drawing by Wilde’s ...

The Spanish clearly prefer their CDs packaged in book form. We've got used to having Jordi Savall's recordings on Alia Vox issued as part of glossy, heavily illustrated tomes, and now Ediciones ...

Donald Macleod introduces one of France's most spectacular operatic superstars, Jules Massenet. Macloed explores Massenet's celebrated gift for melody, as well as some of the recurring dramatic themes ...