MASSENET: Marie-Magdeleine

Music composed by Jules Massenet. Libretto by Louis Gallet based on La
vie de JÈsus
(1863) by Ernest Renan.

First performance: 11 April 1873, ThÈ‚tre de l’OdÈon, Paris (concert
performance).

Principal Characters:
Marie-Magdeleine (MÈryem) Mezzo-Soprano
Marthe Soprano
JÈsus Tenor
Judas Bass

Click
here for La vie de JÈsus (1863) by Ernest
Renan
.


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Judas: Richard Haan
Marthe: Pavlina Kambourova
MÈryem: Valentina Tschavdarova
Czech Philharmonic Chorus of Brno, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Leoö Sv·rovsk˝ (cond.)
Brno, 1994