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MASSENET JULES: (1842-1912) - MASSENET JULES: (1842-1912) French composer of the Romantic era. A very good content A.L.S., ` J. Massenet ´, three pages, 8vo, Paris, 11th January 1901, in French. Massenet addresses the letter to `Mes chers et grands amis´ (” My dear and great friends”) and emotionally refers to two of his operas and to the successful number of performances achieved, stating in part ` Je suis tout ému en lisant ces mots... cette pensée! Vous savez combien mon admiration pour vous est sans bornes... Ma reconnaissance aussi! ” Le Cid ” à Paris a dépassé la centaine!... ” Hérodiade ” aussi, à Bruxelles, a plus de 100 représentations... et je pense toujours aux représentations uniques données à Paris!...´ (Translation: ” I am deeply moved reading these words.. this thought! You know how much my admiration for you is boundless... My gratitude too! ` Le Cid´ in Paris has exceeded one hundred!.. ` Hérodiade´ also, in Brussels, has more than 100 performances... and I always think in the unique performances given in Paris!...”) Further, Massenet asks his correpondents to send his fervent thoughts to Miss Lucienne Breval. VG Le Cid is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet based on the play of the same name by Pierre Corneille. It was first performed by a star-studded cast at the Paris Opera in November 1885 and was premiered in the presence of French President Grevy. Hérodiade is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet, based on the novella Hérodias (1877) by Gustave Flaubert. It was first performed at the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels in December 1881. Lucienne Breval (1869-1935) Swiss Soprano. A favourite of Massenet. She performed most of her career at the Parisian Opera Nationale. Best remembered for her role as Chimene in Massenet´s Le Cid. Breval premiered Massenet´s opera Griselidis (1901) at the Opera Comique in Paris.