Les 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...

1% of the population. The Huguenots were concentrated in the southern and western parts of the Kingdom of France. As Huguenots gained influence and more...

The following is a list of recordings of the opera Les Huguenots, by Giacomo Meyerbeer (libretto by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps), which was premiered...

the talent to be lucky.' He was at his peak with his operas Les Huguenots (1836) and Le prophète (1849); his last opera (L'Africaine) was performed posthumously...

that the subject was too trite. After seeing Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots of 1836 at Covent Garden, which tells the story of the massacre, Millais...

libretto also by Scribe), and commissioned Meyerbeer's next opera Les Huguenots (1836, libretto by Scribe and Deschamps), whose success was to prove...

the same year in the demanding leading role of Raoul in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots at Bard SummerScape in New York. Since then, his career has taken him...

greatest success was creating the role of Valentine in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots. She possessed "a full, resonant voice" with a distinctive dark timbre...

with Les Musiciens du Louvre, a debut at La Monnaie as Urbain in a new production of Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots conducted by Minkowski, Stravinsky's Le Rossignol...

the military and political leader of the Huguenots. King Charles IX ordered the killing of a group of Huguenot leaders, including Coligny, and the slaughter...

Some notable French Huguenots or people with French Huguenot ancestry include: Salomon de Brosse (1571–1626), French architect. Isaac de Caus (1590–1648)...

Look up Huguenot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Huguenots was a name given to French Calvinists from the 16th to the 18th century. Huguenot may also...

Bartered Bride Kurwenal, Tristan und Isolde Le Comte de Nevers, Les Huguenots Le Comte de Saint-Bris, Les Huguenots Lescaut, Manon Lescaut Lescaut, Manon Lionel...

Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda in 1961; Marguerite de Valois in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots and the title role in Rossini's Semiramide in 1962; Norma in Bellini's...

protestantes et qui figure dans les Huguenots". ... La mélodie originelle est puissamment rythmée, de manière à se plier à toutes les nuances du texte ..." Lutheran...

pour le piano Op. 403, Romance & Rondo on Themes from the Opera 'Les Huguenots' Op. 404, Introduction et variations brillantes sur 'Les Huguenots' Op....

marriage. Margaret of Valois has a major role in the Meyerbeer opera Les Huguenots. That was one of the signature roles of the Australian soprano Joan...

in Roméo et Juliette, Marguerite in Faust, Marguerite de Valois in Les Huguenots, the title role in Saint-Saëns's Hélène, which was written for her,...

Sieglinde, Die Walküre (Wagner) Turandot, Turandot (Puccini) Valentine, Les Huguenots (Giacomo Meyerbeer) Vanessa, Vanessa (Samuel Barber) The following roles...

and leaves. Paul then steals tickets to see her perform in the opera Les Huguenots that evening, and after he is thrown out of his seat by the manager...

production of Les Huguenots where she "comprehensively conquered the hearts of the Paris audience." The day after her final performance of Les Huguenots, she premiered...

most notable for creating the role of the page Urbain in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots in 1836. Flécheux began her career in her native Rouen, singing in the...

giorno di regno (Verdi) Marguérite, Faust (Gounod) Marguérite de Valois, Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer) Maria Stuarda, Maria Stuarda (Donizetti) Mathilde, William...

in French productions of a full-length version of Faust as well as Les Huguenots with Jean Lassalle and under the impresario Augustus Harris. To these...

ISBN 0-14-029312-4. Brzoska, Matthias (2003). 'Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable and Les Huguenots ' in Charlton (2003), pp. 189–207. Carlson, Marvin (1972). The...

CDs, including Il trovatore, Simon Boccanegra, Roma, Robert le diable and Les Huguenots. He has also appeared regularly on television and radio programs...

Berlin. He returned to La Scala in 1962, for a revival of Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, opposite Joan Sutherland, and that same year appeared as Manrico in...

Opera in roles including Papageno, the Count of Nevers in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots and Dandini in Rossini's La Cenerentola. He sang the role of Pollux...

Alice, Robert and Bertram (Robert le diable); Fidès, Jean de Leyden and the three anabaptistes (Le prophète); Valentine, Raoul and Marcel (Les Huguenots)...

with Giacomo Meyerbeer and Eugène Scribe on the libretti of Les Huguenots (1836) and Le prophète (1849). Synchronicity Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Deschamps...