Fact file
| Year of birth | 1842 |
| Year of death | 1912 |
| Nationality | France |
| Period | Romantic |
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BerlinCendrillon (Cinderella)
Massenet: Cendrillon
Ainārs Rubiķis; Damiano Michieletto; Komische Oper Berlin; Sabine Franz; Chor der Komischen Oper Berlin; Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin
LucerneSilvesterkonzert «Viva la Diva»
Handel, Porpora, Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Dostal, Massenet, Stolz, Lehár, Strauss I, Holländer, Straus, Bernstein
Zurich Chamber Orchestra; Simone Kermes; Willi Zimmermann
CórdobaConcierto de Año Nuevo
Mozart, Rossini, Suppe, Massenet, Brahms, Strauss II, Strauss
Orquesta de Córdoba; Marco Guidarini
ZürichNeujahrskonzert «Viva la Diva»
Handel, Porpora, Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Dostal, Massenet, Stolz, Lehár, Strauss I, Holländer, Straus, Bernstein
Zurich Chamber Orchestra; Simone Kermes; Willi Zimmermann
CórdobaDía de Andalucía: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Chapí, Boismortier, Massenet, García Abril, Guridi, Falla
Orquesta de Córdoba; Carlos Domínguez-Nieto; Auxiliadora Toledano; Pablo García-López; Francisco Araiza
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A tour d'horizon of French song; Gens and Manoff enchant Oxford
Here was singing and playing to live long in the memory.
Overwrought and over-thought: Cendrillon
In her anxiety to be ‘new’, Shaw slaps a sackload of semi-comprehensible ideas onto a sort-of present day update.
A Proms debut by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
A century on from its birth, one of Switzerland’s leading orchestras finally makes its Proms debut in a scintillating programme of French and Russian music.
Sins of the fathers: Le Cid at Dorset Opera Festival
Dorset Opera Festival's bold decision to programme Massenet's obscure opera about a medieval Castilian hero proves to be a major success.
A dark update for Werther in Prague
Willy Decker's enduring production gets smart treatment in a handsome revival.