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  • In an interview of Stephanie Phair , director of Net-a-Porter sister site the Outnet, in Saturday's Off Duty section, Ms. Massenet's name was misspelled Massanet.

    Corrections & Amplifications 2011

  • In La Monnaie's December production of Jules Massenet's "Cendrillon," dozens of princesses in fantastical geometric red ballgowns sashayed across the stage, while the fairy—a superb Eglise Gutierrez—flitted across the rooftops of Paris in a dove-gray dress with wings reimagined as feathery puffs of smoke.

    From Revolution to Evolution Frances Robinson 2012

  • Ms. Massenet's friend, Jimmy Choo founder Tamara Mellon, didn't design anything for the event.

    Christie's Goes for the Green Rachel Dodes 2011

  • That evening I went to the Lyric Opera of Chicago where my ex also worked to perform Dulcinée in Massenet's Don Quixote.

    Susanne Mentzer: The Unsingable Susanne Mentzer 2011

  • PARIS—Director Coline Serreau asks too much of the audience with her new staging of Jules Massenet's "Manon."

    In 'Manon,' Best to Close Your Eyes Judy Fayard 2012

  • Where they do have the edge over the Deutsche Grammophon disc is in the generous French fillers – there's Debussy's Fantaisie, and a selection of Massenet's piano pieces, which Bavouzet judges perfectly and dispatches with great panache, especially the rather remarkable and unexpected Valse Folle from 1898.

    Ravel: The Piano Concertos; Debussy: Fantaisie; etc – review Andrew Clements 2010

  • Massenet's French operatic version of the fairytale, Cendrillon, has arrived at Covent Garden for its Royal Opera House debut in Laurent Pelly's stylish production, first seen in Santa Fe in 2006, and with the star mezzo Joyce DiDonato reprising the title role.

    Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review 2011

  • The orchestration, rich with harmonium, celeste and harp, and aglow with fluttering woodwind and solo string writing, displays Massenet's hunger for throwing every musical meat, fish and fowl into his recipe, with uneven results.

    Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review 2011

  • The first time I heard Mr. Diehl, he wasn't merely playing Art Tatum, but rifling through Tatum's arrangement of Massenet's "Elegie," which ain't exactly "Chopsticks."

    Passing Down the Piano Torch Song Will Friedwald 2011

  • That evening I went to the Lyric Opera of Chicago where my ex also worked to perform Dulcinée in Massenet's Don Quixote.

    Susanne Mentzer: The Unsingable Susanne Mentzer 2011

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