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`JONGLEUR' IS SWEET, SAD CELEBRATION
From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20021007
Author:Ellen Pfeifer, Globe Correspondent
Based on an Anatole France retelling of a favorite French fable, Jules Massenet's "Le Jongleur de Notre Dame" depicts a juggler and street musician who so pleases the Virgin Mary with his "low" tricks that her statue miraculously smiles. There is good reason why the story has been popular for centuries. It skewers the arrogant, well- fed clergy and elevates a simple soul who brings only humble faith to his worship. As such, it belongs in the same company as the biblical parables of the Pharisee and the publican and the rich man and Lazarus.
Massenet's rarely heard opera nicely contrasts the ...
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