The Opéra Bastille will host Jules Massenet's Manon from May 26 to June 20, 2025. A retelling of the tragic love story of ...

Natalie Massenet is sitting in the den of Donhead House—her home in the tiny village of Donhead St. Andrew, about two hours’ drive southwest of London—when she tells me about a fax she ...

Spoleto Festival USA will present Jules Massenet's little-known 1893 opera “Thaïs,” directed by Crystal Manich and conducted ...

Even by the standards of Jules Massenet’s earlier five-act operas for Paris, this is lush and sensuous music painted across a wide canvas. The various love duets vie with each other in lyrical ...

Gold flashes through “Thaïs,” Spoleto Festival USA’s absorbing world premiere production of Jules Massenet’s 1894 opera, with ...

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A white stag appeared in the chateau moat. For fear of startling him, yet desperately wanting to take a photo, I slowly reached for my phone—when all of a sudden the stag looked directly at me ...

"The Turn of the Screw" and "Thaïs" are the Spoleto Festival USA's two operas for 2025. They are two very different stories ...

Isabella Massenet first realized she knew how to read a room when, as a kid, she was tasked with the music selection in the car. "I learned what it means to play a song at a certain time," she ...

Even among a group of classical music experts, you’d be hard pushed to find anyone who could instantly tell you the plot of French composer Jules Massenet’s relatively unknown opera Thaïs. Instead, ...