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Don Quichotte ( Don Quixote) is an opera in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Caïn. It was first performed on 19 February 1910 at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo . Massenet's comédie héroïque, like many dramatized versions of the story of Don Quixote, relates only indirectly to the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
This is a complete list of operas by the French composer Jules Massenet (1842–1912). Several of Massenet's operas were premiered by the Opéra-Comique in Paris, first at the second Salle Favart (Favart 2), followed by the Théâtre Lyrique on the Place du Châtelet (Lyrique), and then the third Salle Favart (Favart 3).
Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet ( French pronunciation: [ʒyl emil fʁedeʁik masnɛ]; [n 1] 12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently staged are Manon (1884) and Werther (1892). He also composed oratorios, ballets, orchestral ...
Michieletto’s version of the 114-year-old “Quichotte” portrayed the title character, based on Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quijote, as stricken with memory lapses, traipsing a 1960s pastel ...
Être aimé (Jules Massenet after Victor Hugo) Feux-follets d'amour (Madeleine Grain) Guitare (Victor Hugo) La Lettre ( Catulle Mendès) La mort de la cigale (Maurice Fauré) La veillée du Petit Jésus (André Theuriet) La vie d'une rose, Op. 12 n° 3 (Jules Ruelle) L'air du soir emportait (Armand Silvestre)
Hérodiade. Hérodiade is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Paul Milliet and Henri Grémont, based on the novella Hérodias (1877) by Gustave Flaubert. It was first performed at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels on 19 December 1881. The libretto is a retelling of the story of John the Baptist, Salome, Herod ...
Manon. Manon ( French pronunciation: [manɔ̃]) is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost. It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 19 January 1884, with sets ...
16 March 1894. ( 1894-03-16) Opéra Garnier, Paris. Thaïs ( French pronunciation: [ta.is]) is an opera, a comédie lyrique in three acts and seven tableaux, by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis Gallet, based on the novel Thaïs by Anatole France. It was first performed at the Opéra Garnier in Paris on 16 March 1894, starring the ...