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 ...

The Sarasota Opera has once again revealed a hidden gem of a long-neglected opera with its production of “Thérèse” by Jules Massenet. For many years, Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi has made it his ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Composed late in life (1907), Massenet’s compact “drame musical” tells of a delicate love triangle at the time of the ...

At the heart of Massenet’s 1907 opera is a tragic love triangle, and the performers in this Scottish Opera production embodied the lead roles as if their lives depended on it, writes Kelly Apter Like ...

Scottish Opera’s semi-staged performance of Massenet’s opera about a love triangle during the French Revolution is delightful - full of passionate outbursts and high emotion Despite the familiarity of ...

Being a sucker for Massenet’s operas, I often grumpily wish that instead of piously reviving so many indistinguishable baroque folderols, some enlightened opera company would get to grips with the ...

Jules Massenet (1842-1912) has been well served by Wexford Festival Opera, and this double bill of his Thérèse (1907) and La Navarraise (1894) brings the festival's tally of full-scale Massenet ...

The Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice has become the centre for a revival of the French Romantic repertoire, recording and releasing a series of “opera books” containing music and libretto alongside ...

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 ...