A Novel written by who is an opera based on in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann, that is a mainstay of the repertory during its history have included the following works which have each been performed more than 1,000 times by the company?
Werther Werther is an opera ("drame lyrique") in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann (who used the pseudonym Henri Grémont). It is loosely based on the German epistolary novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which was based both on fact and on Goethe's own early life. Earlier examples of operas using the story were made by Kreutzer (1792) and Pucitta (1802).
Hérodiade Hérodiade is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Paul Milliet and Henri Grémont, based on the novella "Hérodias" (1877) by Gustave Flaubert. It was first performed at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels on 19 December 1881.