Massenet, ‘le musicien de la femme et de l’amour’, as Schneider called him, composed an opera without either — except, the composer said, the most sublime of all women: the Virgin.
Category: 20th century opera
75. Sāvitri (Gustav Holst)
A loyal wife tricks death to save her husband's life.
72. Capriccio (Richard Strauss)
An artistic debate about opera - written in the middle of WWII.


