'It will be a strange score: people will either not like it at all, or will like it enormously', prophesied Camille Saint-Saens a few days before the premiere of Dejanire. The opera, first performed... more

French music specialist, Jean-Luc Tingaud, conducts a selection of Faure's secular choral and theatrical music - works that remain relatively little known. Setting a text by Victor Hugo, Les Djinns... more

This programme spotlights Gabriel Faure's orchestrated songs and his music for the stage, of which his suite from the incidental music for Pelleas et Melisande includes some of his best-loved music.... more

Sacchini's debut in Paris with Renaud (1783) was a success, earning him the favor of Marie-Antoinette. Encouraged by the public, he enriched the repertoire of the Paris Opera with several... more

Paris discovered Massenet's Griselidis at the Opera-Comique on 20 November 1901. The work is based on a medieval folktale retold by Boccaccio and Perrault, among others, and already set to music... more