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    Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer; 5 September 1791 – 2 May 1864) was a German opera composer, "the most frequently performed opera composer...
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    The Palais Garnier (French: [palɛ ɡaʁnje] , Garnier Palace), also known as L'Opéra Garnier (French: [ɔpeʁa ɡaʁnje] , Garnier Opera), is a historic 1,979-seat...
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    Les Huguenots (category Operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer)
    Huguenots (French pronunciation: [le ˈyg(ə)no]) is an opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer and is one of the most popular and spectacular examples of grand opera...
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    L'Africaine (category Operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer)
    French grand opéra in five acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Meyerbeer and Scribe began working on the opera in 1837, using...
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    novelist August von Kotzebue, dramatist Max Liebermann, painter Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer Friedrich Carl von Savigny, jurist (Historical School) Albert...
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    ISBN 978-0-674-02081-8. Retrieved 15 June 2022. Meyerbeer, Giacomo (1999). The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The years of celebrity, 1850-1856. Vancouver...
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    from Meyerbeer, whose premiere had been delayed by the Revolution. This was fortunate for both Véron and Meyerbeer. As Berlioz commented, Meyerbeer had...
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    William Holman Hunt that the subject was too trite. After seeing Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots of 1836 at Covent Garden, which tells the story of...
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  • Press. Online version retrieved 8 May 2013. Meyerbeer, Giacomo (2004). The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The Last Years 1857-1864 (translated and annotated...
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    Murillo ou La corde du pendu (Aylic Langlé, 1853, also with music by Meyerbeer) Romulus (Dumas, Feuillet, Bocage, 1854) Le songe d'une nuit d'hiver (Plouvier...
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    advent of grand opera typified by the works of Daniel Auber and Giacomo Meyerbeer as well as Carl Maria von Weber's introduction of German Romantische Oper...
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    trovatore. His repertoire at the VSO included Le Comte de Nevers in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots which he performed under the baton of Gustav Mahler. Some...
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    French tradition, including Lully, Gluck, Salieri, Cherubini, Spontini, Meyerbeer, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi and Offenbach. French opera began at the court...
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    middle of the 19th century, when Richard Wagner denigrated the music of Meyerbeer and Berlioz as "neoromantic": "The Opera, to which we shall now return...
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    known Parisian structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and the Palais Garnier opera house, plus abbeys, churches such as Saint-Germain-des-Prés...
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    the same spirit as Nathan the Wise, which premiered in 1779, Giacomo Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots which premiered in 1836, a year after La Juive, as well...
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  • Kent Nagano, 1989, Virgin Classics (as Fata Morgana) Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable with the Palais Garnier orchestra under the baton of Thomas Fulton, 1985...
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    His contemporaries Cherubini, Beethoven, Weber, Rossini, Donizetti and Meyerbeer all considered it a masterpiece, and later composers such as Berlioz,...
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    Hugo himself particularly enjoyed the music of Gluck, Mozart, Weber and Meyerbeer. In Les Misérables, he calls the huntsman's chorus in Weber's Euryanthe...
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    created the Marquis d'Erigny in Auber's Manon Lescaut (1856) and Hoël in Meyerbeer's Le pardon de Ploërmel (1859; later known as Dinorah), among seven premieres...
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    (1831) – Giacomo Meyerbeer Gustave III (1833) – Daniel Auber La Juive (1835) – Fromental Halévy Les Huguenots (1836) – Giacomo Meyerbeer La Esmeralda (1836)...
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    other minor roles, such as a herald-in-arms in Meyerbeer's Robert le diable, the Comte de Nevers in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, Rodolphe and Melcthal in Rossini's...
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    of the new regime was Robert le Diable by the German composer Giacomo Meyerbeer, which premiered on November 21, 1831. The opera combined the German orchestral...
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    scooter under the front wheels of the truck at the intersection with rue Meyerbeer, mounted the truck's running board and struck the driver before being...
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    and with Caroline Carvalho as Mathilde in 1870), and Fidès in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Le prophète in 1872. Although Bloch was striking in appearance with an...
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    Assassination of the Duke of Guise was also based on an opera, Giacomo Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots. The decor and dress are partly inspired by ancient models...
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    the different components for the dish. An example used is oeufs au plat Meyerbeer, the prior system would take up to fifteen minutes to prepare the dish...
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    composer in January or February 1850, shortly after her triumph there in Meyerbeer's Le prophète. In his memoirs Gounod relates that the violinist François...
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    his operas were less successful in Paris than those of his chief rival, Meyerbeer; he returned to Italy and did not come back for several years. He was...
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    repertoire with Marguerite in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust, Valentine in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, Brunehild in Reyer's Sigurd, Bonté in Magnard's Guercœur...
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