Massenet / Dolie / Orchestre National Montpelliere - Griselidis [CD] Junior Mafia My Wig Fell Off

My Wig Fell Off

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Ripples on a Pond

which underneath its poppy exterior contains an undercurrent of paranoia and suspicion

And since very often within certain Sonatas there is an alternation between the Andalusian style and the Italian one

Massenet / Dolie / Orchestre National Montpelliere - Griselidis [CD] Junior Mafia My Wig Fell OffParis discovered Massenet's Griselidis at the Opera Comique on 20 November 1901. The work is based on a medieval folktale retold by Boccaccio and Perrault, among others, and already set to music several times in the Baroque era. It gave Massenet the opportunity to handle the 'Gothic' colouring of which the early twentieth century could not get enough. The inventive libretto by Armand Silvestre and Eugene Morand explores unusually contrasted registers: