Some people greet announcements of a new production of Massenet’s Manon not just with pleasure of anticipation, but with a kind of ‘in the know’ superiority. Massenet set the story better than Puccini, they say, and this will prove it
Werther is an unexpectedly successful opera, a rare case of a composer most would not place in the first rank, Massenet, making a touching and enduring work of art from a famous novel - one of the greatest literary sensations of all time - by one of the greatest writers, Goethe…
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