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 ...

Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes will host a major return of French opera this summer with Compañía Nacional de Ópera’s ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Jules Massenet’s The Juggler of Notre Dame (Le Jongleur de Notre Dame) was first performed in 1902, and until Central City Opera took it on, it hadn’t been staged in the United States for half a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jules Massenet’s opera premiered in 1910 in Monte Carlo. It’s not a straight retelling of Cervantes’ “Don Quixote”; Massenet was inspired by a French play by Jacques Le Lorrain. While Massenet wrote ...