permissibility

Updated: June 18, 2025

Mention must be made, for the sake of completeness, of the performance at Nice in 1903 of Massenet's thirty year old oratorio, 'Marie Magdeleine, in the guise of a 'drame lyrique. French taste, it need hardly be said, is very different from English with regard to what should and should not be placed upon the stage, but once granted the permissibility of making Jesus Christ the protagonist of an opera, there is comparatively little in 'Marie Magdeleine' to offend religious susceptibilities.

R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild - The Opera : A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.