Operas

   Jules Massenet wrote or was supposed to write many operas. The following are documented and, all but 3, were published. For each opera I try to furnish as much information as I have on each work: including the history, cast, synopsis and any other interesting information.

• La Grand' Tante (1867)
• Don Cesar de Bazan (1872)
• L'Adorable Bel-Boule (1873)
• Berengere et Anatole (1876)
• Le Roi de Lahore (1877)
• Hérodiade (1881)
• Manon (1884)
• Le Cid (1885)
• Esclarmonde (1889)
• Le Mage (1891)
• Werther (1892)
• Thaïs (1894)
• Le Portrait de Manon (1894)
• La Navarraise (1894)
• Sapho (1897)
• Cendrillon (1899)
• Toute le France (1900)
• Grisélidis (1901)
• Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame (1902)
• Marie-Magdeleine (staged first in 1903)
• Chérubin (1905)
• Ariane (1906)
• Thérèse (1907)
• Bacchus (1909)
• Don Quichotte (1910)
• Roma (1912)

• Panurge (1913)

• Cléopâtre (1914)
• Amadis (1922)
• Unfinished or discarded operas

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Last updated March 17, 2008