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Updated: May 2, 2025
'Le Portrait de Manon, a delicate little sketch in one act, and 'Thaïs, a clever setting of Anatole France's beautiful romance, both produced in 1894, will not be likely to add much to Massenet's reputation. 'La Navarraise, produced during the same year in London, was apparently an attempt to imitate the melodramatic extravagance of Mascagni.
Massenet's latest work, 'Thérèse' , is a return to the breathless, palpitating style of 'La Navarraise. It is a story of the revolution, high-strung and emotional. Thérèse is the wife of the Girondin Thorel, who has bought the castle of Clerval, in the hope of eventually restoring it to its former owner, Armand de Clerval. Armand returns in disguise, on his way to join the Royalists in Vendée.
She shook the tears from her lashes, and found her voice and her smile to answer his: "Sire, I was a true Ligueuse this morning. But I came here half Navarraise, and now I swear I am wholly one." "Now, that is good hearing!" the king cried. "Such a recruit from Mayenne! Also is it heartening to discover that my conversion is not the only sudden one in the world.
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