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.
91. Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame (Jules Massenet)
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74. Kassya (Léo Delibes, Jules Massenet)
Here is an opera to warm the heart! Class war in Eastern Europe; a proletariat hero; a peasants' revolution; the nobility banished; the violent death of a woman seduced by luxury; and happiness in a humble cottage - all inspired by the inventor of masochism.
43. La Navarraise (Jules Massenet)
La Navarraise is like a super-concentrated essence of opera; it lasts barely 40 minutes, but runs the gamut of emotions, has a great role for a soprano, and ends on a devastating curtain.
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