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Jules Massenet. Thérèse

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Couverture Livre disque ThérèseCD-Book. Bru Zane Label. French Opera Collection n. 3.

The composer Jules Massenet constantly renewed his style. Towards the end of his life he turned to experimental forms of expression that are astonishing even today. Combining a marked taste for the last eighteenth century (already found in Manon and Werther) with a very  modern use of naturalism, Thérèse shows both immediacy in its dramatic discourse and lyricism in its emotional expression, thus greatly deepening the strenghth and poignancy of the subject.

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Jean-Christophe Branger – Massenet and opera: richness and diversity

Étienne Jardin – Thérèse, from the Couvent des Carmes to the Opéra-Comique

Alexandre Dratwicki – Naturalism and Massenet’s Thérèse

Thierry Santurenne – Women and the Revolution in French opera

Gabriel Fauré – The première of 'Thérèse' in Monte Carlo

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Thérèse

Jules MASSENET

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Jules CLARETIE

1907

Related persons

Composer, Pianist

Jules MASSENET

(1842 - 1912)

Librettist

Jules CLARETIE

(1840 - 1913)

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