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Jules 1842-1912 Massenet. My Recollections
My Recollections
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
ILLUSTRATIONS
MY RECOLLECTIONS
CHAPTER I. MY ADMISSION TO THE CONSERVATOIRE
CHAPTER II. YOUTHFUL YEARS
CHAPTER III. THE GRAND PRIX DE ROME
CHAPTER IV. THE VILLA MEDICI
CHAPTER V. THE VILLA MEDICI
CHAPTER VI. THE VILLA MEDICI
CHAPTER VII. MY RETURN TO PARIS
CHAPTER VIII. MY DÉBUT AT THE THEATER
CHAPTER IX. THE DAYS AFTER THE WAR
CHAPTER X. JOY AND SORROW
CHAPTER XI. MY DÉBUT AT THE OPERA
CHAPTER XII. THE THEATERS IN ITALY
CHAPTER XIII. THE CONSERVATOIRE AND THE INSTITUTE
CHAPTER XIV. A FIRST PERFORMANCE AT BRUSSELS
CHAPTER XV. THE ABBE PREVOST AT THE OPÉRA-COMIQUE
CHAPTER XVI. FIVE COLLABORATORS
CHAPTER XVII. A JOURNEY TO GERMANY
CHAPTER XVIII. A STAR
CHAPTER XIX. A NEW LIFE
CHAPTER XX. MILAN—LONDON—BAYREUTH
CHAPTER XXI. A VISIT TO VERDI. FAREWELL TO AMBROISE THOMAS
CHAPTER XXII. WORK! ALWAYS WORK!
CHAPTER XXIII. IN THE MIDST OF THE MIDDLE AGES
CHAPTER XXIV. FROM CHÉRUBIN TO THÉRÈSE
CHAPTER XXV. SPEAKING OF 1793
CHAPTER XXVI. FROM ARIANE TO DON QUICHOTTE
CHAPTER XXVII. A SOIRÉE
CHAPTER XXVIII. DEAR EMOTIONS
CHAPTER XXIX. THOUGHTS AFTER DEATH
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Jules Massenet
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Every evening at six o'clock—the theater began very early—I went by the way of the Rue des Fossés-du-Temple, near my house, to the stage door of the Théâtre-Lyrique. In those days the left side of the Boulevard du Temple was one unbroken line of theaters. Consequently I went along the back of the Funambules, the Petit-Lazari, the Délassements-Comiques, the Cirque Impérial and the Gaîté. Those who did not know that corner of Paris in 1859 can have no idea of it.
The Rue des Fossés-du-Temple, on which all the stage doors opened, was a sort of wonderland where all the supers, male and female, from all the theaters waited in great crowds on the dimly lighted pavements. The atmosphere was full of vermin and microbes. Even in our Théâtre-Lyrique the musicians' dressing room was only an old stable in which the horses used in historical plays were kept.
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