Ariane, Massenet / Campellone / Edris, CD Katie Lee Biegel Count down the twelve days

Count down the twelve days til Christmas in this delightful advent book

Just getting the multicultural fleet underway is a challenge

The few hours of light would expose the unfathomable beauty of the mountains and the fjords

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Ariane, Massenet / Campellone / Edris, CD Katie Lee Biegel Count down the twelve daysIt would be difficult to find a simpler and more poignant subject', Massenet remarked during the composition of Ariane, a vast score in five acts premiered at the Paris Opra in October 1906. The libretto by Catulle Mends is part ancient drama, part symbolist poem, and sets Phaedra and Ariadne, two sisters in love with Theseus, in violent conflict with each other. This epic work does not shrink from relating the combat against the Minotaur, from