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Massenet: Thaïs - Méditation (Arr. R. Nichols for Violin and Piano)
Christian Li & Timothy Young
Werther: "Pourquoi me réveiller" (Live at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, 1994)
Luciano Pavarotti
Le Cid: "O Souverain, Ô Juge, Ô Père" (Live at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, 1994)
José Carreras
Massenet: Werther: "Pourquoi me reveiller?" (Live)
Luciano Pavarotti, New York Philharmonic & Leone Magiera
Massenet: Nuit d'Espagne (Arr. G. Bianco for Voice and Guitar)
Thibaut Garcia & Marianne Crebassa
Massenet: Thaïs, Act 2: Méditation
Guillaume Bellom & Renaud Capuçon
Werther: Pourquoi me réveiller?
Valery Gergiev, Vienna Philharmonic & Jonas Kaufmann
Manon, Act III, Tableau 1: "Obeissons quand leur voix appelle" - Gavotte"
The Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano & Lisette Oropesa
Le Cid: Castillane (Suite de ballet) (Live from Barbican)
London Symphony Orchestra & François-Xavier Roth
Le Cid: Navarraise (Suite de ballet) (Live from Barbican)
London Symphony Orchestra & François-Xavier Roth
About Jules Massenet
Artist Biography
Massenet was France’s leading opera composer during the Belle Époque, a period of great cultural and technological optimism shattered ultimately by the outbreak of the First World War. His flair for radiant melody and harmonic luxuriance graced a remarkable series of 32 operas, highlighted by two instrumental hits: the ballet music from Le Cid (1885) and the violin-led “Méditation” from Thaïs (1894). Massenet was born in Montaud in 1842 and, following lessons with his amateur musician mother, was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire aged 11. Although a brilliant pianist, it was his experiences playing percussion in theater orchestras that lit his creative flame. His first major breakthrough came in 1884 with Manon, followed in 1892 by Werther. The incurably modest Massenet spent many of his operatic premieres at home with the family, yet never wanted for admirers, even when Debussy and Ravel were stealing all the headlines towards the end of his life. He died in 1912, aged 70.
Hometown
Montaud, Loire, France
Genre
Classical
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