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Massenet: Manon / Massis, Davin, Opera Royal de Wallonie Orchestra

Dynamic

Available as DVD

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Sep 30, 2016

Also available on CD

Jules Massenet’s five act opera-comique is presented on this new release by Patrick Davin and his Orchestra of the Opera Royal de Wallonie-Liege. Manon is Massenet’s most performed opera, which has maintained its spot in the repertoire since its composition. The enduring opera “quickly conquered the world’s stages.” Annick Massis stars in the title role. The French soprano has enjoyed a long stage career, frequently performing in Mozart’s operas and many bel canto roles.

Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9
Audio Formats: PCM 2.0, DD 5.1
Subtitles, French, English, Italian, German, Korean
Region Code: 0 (All)
Running Time: 162 mins

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Massenet: Manon / Massis, Davin, Opera Royal de Wallonie Orchestra

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DVD

Dynamic

Sep 30, 2016

DYN-37751

Classical Violin Pearls

Kontrapunkt

Available as CD

$22.99

Oct 15, 2004

To close the 2004 Kontrapunkt releases Denmark’s leading violinist Søren Elbæk joined by Morten Mogensen on piano presents the “ultimate violin recital”. From the Heifetz arrangement of Manuel Ponce’s “Estrellita” to Massenet’s “Thaïs – méditation” the CD is packed with the famous melodies brilliantly performed.

Classical Violin Pearls

$22.99
CD

Kontrapunkt

Oct 15, 2004

KON 32335

French Impressions

Klavier

Available as CD

$18.99

Jan 13, 2015

Experience some of the world's most beautiful music, as performed by the U.S. Air Force Band, Col. Lowell E. Graham, Commander/Conductor. This album, the third in a series highlighting the art of transcription, displays all of the color, passion and flair that have made these musical works concert favorites. Featuring works by Emmanuel Chabrier, Jules Massenet, Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, Jacques Ibert and Maurice Ravel.

French Impressions

$18.99
CD

Klavier

Jan 13, 2015

K11203

Massenet: Le Roi De Lahore / Viotti, Gipali, Sanchez, Zanellato

Dynamic

Available as DVD

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Jan 01, 2011

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Massenet: Le Roi De Lahore / Viotti, Gipali, Sanchez, Zanellato

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DVD

Dynamic

Jan 01, 2011

DYN-33487

Massenet: Cendrillon / Wilson, London Philharmonic, Glyndebourne Chorus

Opus Arte

Available as DVD

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Jun 26, 2020

Also available on Blu-ray

\ With its combination of enchanting love story and broad, burlesque comedy, Cendrillon is one of the great operatic fairy tales – a Cinderella that looks back to Charles Perrault’s original story in all its richness and ambiguity. Massenet’s sensuous Belle Epoque fairy tale is gilded with lavish orchestral textures and glittering vocal writing, drawing on everything from baroque dances to Wagner-inspired chromaticism to bring its story to colorful life, conjuring a world of infinite musical and emotional variety. Fiona Shaw’s original Tour production makes its Festival debut here, re-directed by Fiona Dunn and conducted by John Wilson, with a cast led by Glyndebourne favorites Danielle de Niese as Cendrillon and Kate Lindsey as her Prince. The Times called this production “a savvy modern-day makeover,” while Classical Source called it “enchanting and thought-provoking.”

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Massenet: Cendrillon / Wilson, London Philharmonic, Glyndebourne Chorus

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DVD

Opus Arte

Jun 26, 2020

OA 1303D

Massenet: Don Cesar de Bazan / Romano, Les Frivolites Parisiennes

Naxos

Available as CD

~~$29.99~~ $20.99

Jun 12, 2020

Don César de Bazan is an opéra-comique with a narrative of dashing Spanish chivalry and romance. Its plot revolves around deception and comedies of reversed identity, with a struggle between true nobility and wicked selfishness maintaining an animated momentum throughout. This was the young Jules Massenet’s first full-length opera and yet it is filled with the composer’s mature symphonic style, his gift for melody, feeling for the picturesque, and vivacity of rhythm. These distinctive qualities reveal an operatic feast whose time has at last arrived. Conductor Mathieu Romano works within all genres from the Baroque to the contemporary, both on the concert stage and in opera. Romano has worked with ensembles such as the RIAS Kammerchor and the Latvian Radio Choir, and on operatic productions with Les Frivolités Parisiennes and contemporary projects with Ensemble Itinéraire. He also works with the Nederlands Kamerkoor, the Normandy Regional Orchestra, Les Siècles and Sinfonia Varsovia. He regularly appears with Ensemble Aedes, of which he is the founder and artistic director. His discography includes a number of acclaimed releases devoted to choral repertoire.

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REVIEW:

The cast is top notch, with Laurent Naoury (a bass-baritone in reality) courageously tacking the high baritone title role and infusing it with humor. Soprano Elsa Dreisig is a charming Maritana, tenor Thomas Bettinger an elegant King Charles, and the honeyed voice mezzo soprano Marion Lebègue a standout in the trouser role of Lazarille. All four principals evidence the high standards of singing prevalent in French opera today.

The haut de gamme Ensemble Aedes and the superb Orchestre des Frivolités Parisiennes are more than ably led by Mathieu Romano, who infuses Gallic panache into the proceedings.

– Rafael's Music Notes

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Massenet: Don Cesar de Bazan / Romano, Les Frivolites Parisiennes

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CD

Naxos

Jun 12, 2020

8660464-65

Massenet: L'histoire de Manon / Yates, Paris National Opera Orchestra [Blu-ray]

BelAir Classiques

Available as Blu-Ray

$42.99

Oct 28, 2016

Since it was first published in 1731, L’Histoire du Chevalier Dex Grieux et de Manon Lescaut has been the object of numerous adaptations for both stage and screen. In the 19th century, Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber, Jules Massenet and Giacomo Puccini used Abbe Prevost’s novel as the theme for their respective operas. After 1912, cinema transposed the story of Manon and the Knight into varying degrees of melodramatic intensity. In 1974 British choreographer Kenneth MacMillan in turn decided to focus on the two protagonists for an ambitious ballet that could translate the feelings and emotions of two souls abused by the accidents of life and their own personal weaknesses. In short, how a young girl on her way to a convent manages to elope with the young student with whom she has just fallen in love, only to leave him to escape destitution and finally allow herself to be persuaded by her brother Lescaut to yield to the advances of wealthy “protectors.” Rather than reuse the score of Massenet’s opera, MacMillan entrusted Leighton Lucas with the task of arranging a series of extracts taken from a selection of the French composer’s operatic, symphonic and vocal scores. The end result was a huge success from its debut performance in London in 1974 onwards. Sixteen years later, L’Histoire de Manon entered the Paris Opera Ballet’s repertoire.

Massenet: L'histoire de Manon / Yates, Paris National Opera Orchestra [Blu-ray]

$42.99
Blu-Ray

BelAir Classiques

Oct 28, 2016

BAC435

Massenet: Werther (Sung in Italian) [Recorded 1959]

Walhall Eternity Series

Available as CD

$10.99

Jan 01, 2009

Classical Music

Massenet: Werther (Sung in Italian) [Recorded 1959]

$10.99
CD

Walhall Eternity Series

Jan 01, 2009

WLCD0259

Massenet: Manon / Kessels, Royal Opera House Orchestra

Opus Arte

Available as DVD

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Nov 08, 2024

Torn between her desire of a life of splendour and riches and her devotion to her true love Des Grieux (Reece Clarke), the alluring and capricious Manon (Natalia Osipova) pays the ultimate price. MacMillan's adaptation of Abbe Prevost's novel L'Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut?embodies his acute insight into human psychology and his mastery of narrative choreography. This is MacMillan at his best; finding full expression in the impassioned duets of the central couple, visceral and urgent in their desire.

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Massenet: Manon / Kessels, Royal Opera House Orchestra

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DVD

Opus Arte

Nov 08, 2024

OA 1390D

DON QUICHOTTE

Bongiovanni

Available as DVD

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Jan 01, 2008

Starring Alessandro Corbelli, Giacomo Prestia, Marie Devellereau.

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DON QUICHOTTE

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Bongiovanni

Jan 01, 2008

AB20007

Massenet: Cendrillon / Bollon, Strebel, Czarny, Freiburg Philharmonic [Blu-ray]

Naxos AudioVisual

Available as Blu-Ray

~~$30.99~~ $24.99

Aug 10, 2018

Jules Massenet’s fairy-tale opera Cendrillon (‘Cinderella’) was an immediate success at its premiere in 1899 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. Massenet, then at the height of his powers, creates a magical sound-world full of wit, enchantment and perfumed elegance to match librettist Henri Cain’s coming-of-age adaptation of this classic fairy tale. The colorful fantasy world created by the acclaimed stage director Barbrara Mundel and set designer Olga Motta features the British-Swiss soprano, Kim-Lillian Strebel, in her critically acclaimed title role. Kim-Lillian Strebel has received critical acclaim following a number of high profile debuts. She has acquired an extensive repertoire to include several high-profile roles. She recently made her US concert debut with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

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Massenet: Cendrillon / Bollon, Strebel, Czarny, Freiburg Philharmonic [Blu-ray]

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Blu-Ray

Naxos AudioVisual

Aug 10, 2018

NBD0079V

Franco Corelli: The alternative repertoire 1956-1972

Urania Records

Available as CD

$29.99

Apr 17, 2026

Franco Corelli, along with Mario Del Monaco and Carlo Bergonzi, is universally recognized as the greatest Italian tenor of the last century. This edition of his performances is based primarily on the early recordings he made for the Italian Cetra and includes a selection of great scenes from his repertoire, including a crucial, high-quality live version of Don Carlo, which Corelli never recorded in a studio.

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Franco Corelli: The alternative repertoire 1956-1972

$29.99
CD

Urania Records

Apr 17, 2026

WS121.428

Massenet: Manon / Kessels, Royal Opera House Orchestra

Opus Arte

Available as Blu-Ray

~~$39.99~~ $29.99

Nov 08, 2024

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Blu-Ray

Opus Arte

Nov 08, 2024

OA BD7327D

Charles Silver: La Belle au bois dormant

Bru Zane

Available as CD

$42.99

May 08, 2026

Largely forgotten today, the composer Charles Silver was one of the most promising students of Jules Massenet, whose elegant style and effective dramatic gestures he fully mastered. His opera La Belle au bois dormant (Sleeping Beauty), based on Perrault's tale, testifies to these skills with it's colourful, lively and surprisingly modern music: the influence of Puccini is evident. The libretto enriches the original story with delightful comic touches from the characters of Jacotte and Barnabe, who provide a light-hearted counterpoint to the fairytale plot. Although it enjoyed a successful first run in Marseille in 1902, the opera unfortunately never received a Parisian premiere, which hindered it's wider dissemination despite an acclaimed revival at the The�tre de la Monnaie in Brussels. Accessible, refined and treating a universal theme, this score deserves a second chance that just might - who knows? - earn it a place on the international operatic stage.

Charles Silver: La Belle au bois dormant

$42.99
CD

Bru Zane

May 08, 2026

BZ1064

Massenet: Cendrillon / Wilson, London Philharmonic, Glyndebourne Chorus [Blu-ray]

Opus Arte

Available as Blu-Ray

~~$39.99~~ $29.99

Jun 26, 2020

This Blu-ray Disc is only playable on Blu-ray Disc players and not compatible with standard DVD players.

Also available on standard DVD

With its combination of enchanting love story and broad, burlesque comedy, Cendrillon is one of the great operatic fairy tales – a Cinderella that looks back to Charles Perrault’s original story in all its richness and ambiguity. Massenet’s sensuous Belle Epoque fairy tale is gilded with lavish orchestral textures and glittering vocal writing, drawing on everything from baroque dances to Wagner-inspired chromaticism to bring its story to colorful life, conjuring a world of infinite musical and emotional variety. Fiona Shaw’s original Tour production makes its Festival debut here, re-directed by Fiona Dunn and conducted by John Wilson, with a cast led by Glyndebourne favorites Danielle de Niese as Cendrillon and Kate Lindsey as her Prince. The Times called this production “a savvy modern-day makeover,” while Classical Source called it “enchanting and thought-provoking.”

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Massenet: Cendrillon / Wilson, London Philharmonic, Glyndebourne Chorus [Blu-ray]

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Blu-Ray

Opus Arte

Jun 26, 2020

OA BD7267D

Massenet: Ballet Music / Gallois, Barcelona

Naxos

Available as CD

~~$19.99~~ $13.99

Nov 19, 2013

This disc is just a peach. Jules Massenet’s ballet music brings together all the most charming musical trends of the 19th century: the new French ballet tradition, the lightness of Offenbach’s operettas, the lush tunes of Strauss’s Vienna, the big splashy orchestration of late-century “exotic” potboilers. The music keeps getting better and better as the CD goes along.

First I listened out of order and decided the opener, Bacchus, was my least favourite. Then I went in order and, mid-Bacchus, wondered what I had been complaining about. Yes, “Chasseresses et Bacchantes” has an early role for a percussion instrument so wimpily played that I’m not sure what it is, but then the most glorious Johann Strauss parody waltz breaks out and all is forgiven. Yes, the final bacchanale isn’t as crazy as Saint-Säens’ or Roussel’s, but what music is?

Hérodiade is an opera about Herod, where he’s the central character, in contrast with Richard Strauss’s Salome. The ballet music comes from a banquet where Herod entertains guests with dances by exotic slave girls from various foreign lands. It’s the shortest selection here.

Then we have big suites from Thaïs and Le Cid, each over 20 minutes, the highlights of the disc. Those who know Thaïs only for its “Meditation” will be happy to hear that the rest of the opera is also jam-packed with beautiful music. It’s varied, too, from the stern timpani roll of the opening andante to the perky Pierné-like flute and piccolo solos of the sixth movement, to the unexpected two-minute church-like organ solo. Le Cid is a festival of Spanish tropes, tunes and clichés from the very start. The inevitable cor anglais solo, in ‘Madrilène’, is just gorgeous. It’s as tuneful and colourful as the Spanish pastiches of Chabrier and Debussy, which is to say it’s a ton of fun.

The Barcelona Symphony plays excellently throughout, that one wimpy percussion issue confined to a single track. They seem to especially enjoy the Le Cid music, but who wouldn’t? Patrick Gallois continues to prove himself an extremely skilled, sensitive conductor of ballet music. You could imagine people dancing to this album. Given how good the music is, it’s extremely rare to have it collected on disc without the full operas alongside. Frémaux and Marriner have recorded Le Cid but for sound, panache and comprehensiveness, it’s hard to beat this. What fun.

– Brian Reinhart, MusicWeb International

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Massenet: Ballet Music / Gallois, Barcelona

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Naxos

Nov 19, 2013

8573123

Massenet: Thaïs / Hussain, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Arnold Schoenberg Choir [DVD]

UNITEL Edition

DVD

~~$44.99~~ $22.48

Sep 24, 2021

With the "Méditation", Jules Massenet probably wrote one of the most famous melodies of our time. It originates from his Comédie-lyrique "Thaïs", which – unlike Massenet's operas "Werther" or "Manon" – never made it into the international opera repertoire. Presumably because the two main roles of Thaïs and Athanaël demand something almost superhuman from the singers. In the new production by Peter Konwitschny at the Theater an der Wien, the American soprano Nicole Chevalier is one of the most exciting singers currently on stage in the title role. At her side, the young Austrian bass-baritone Josef Wagner celebrates his house debut. This is a fascinating and musically excellent performance of a timeless classic of the opera repertoire. “Gigantically well told (...) Grandiose!” (Der Kurier) // “An acoustic delight” (Der Standard)

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Massenet: Thaïs / Hussain, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Arnold Schoenberg Choir [DVD]

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DVD

UNITEL Edition

Sep 24, 2021

804908

Kaleidoskop der Tonarten – Kaleidoscope of Tunes

Querstand

Available as CD

$25.99

Feb 28, 2025

A ride through the tunes with music from the Baroque to the Modern Era

Kaleidoskop der Tonarten – Kaleidoscope of Tunes

$25.99
CD

Querstand

Feb 28, 2025

VKJK 2309

Kenneth MacMillan's Manon / Yates, Royal Opera House

Opus Arte

Available as DVD

~~$34.99~~ $26.99

Apr 26, 2019

Also available on Blu-ray

Sarah Lamb and Vadim Muntagirov star as tragic lovers Manon and Des Grieux in this performance of Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon, a classic of the Royal Ballet repertory. Nicholas Gerogiadis’s period designs set the ballet in the contrasting worlds of Paris Luxury and Louisiana swampland, while the intense emotion of MacMillan’s choreography is complemented by a score drawn from Massenet’s music. The impassioned pas de deux from Manon and Des Grieux drive this tragic story, and make Manon one of MacMillan’s most powerful dramas. “Kenneth MacMillan’s retelling of Abbe Prevost’s cautionary tale of a young man brought low by an amoral young beauty has been a mainstay of the Royal Ballet repertoire since 1974. The current revival is vividly played and danced by some first-rate casts.” (The Financial Times)

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Kenneth MacMillan's Manon / Yates, Royal Opera House

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DVD

Opus Arte

Apr 26, 2019

OA 1285D

Souvenirs

BIS

Available as SACD

~~$21.99~~ $15.99

Oct 18, 2024

'The repertoire we have chosen for this album consists mainly of pieces that have been with me since my childhood.' With this recital, Johan Dalene, accompanied by Peter Friis Johansson, offers us a selection of popular violin pieces that have accompanied him since his early years. After hearing them in the family car on long journeys, he went on to learn them and then play them in competitions and in concerts. He Johan Dalene now gives us (and himself) a treat and continues the tradition of great violinists such as Heifetz, Perlman and Vengerov, who have all made recordings of favourite encores and recital pieces. Finally to record them himself proved to be an 'extremely inspiring and challenging project', says Dalene. The programme is built around three virtuoso works, Tzigane (Ravel), Introduction and Rondo capriccioso (Saint-Saens) and Carmen Fantasy (Waxman), alongside which more reflective pieces by Massenet, Tchaikovsky, Falla and Kreisler have been included. Also featured is a rarely played miniature by Swedish composer Amanda Maier - a work which, according to Dalene, 'is a gem full of spirit!' A programme that celebrates the multiple sides of the violin, at times virtuoso, at times lyrical, always seductive.

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Souvenirs

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SACD

BIS

Oct 18, 2024

BIS-2770