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...
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of the population'. The Huguenots were concentrated in the southern and western parts of the Kingdom of France. As Huguenots gained influence and more...
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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...
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Some notable French Huguenots or people with French Huguenot ancestry include: Salomon de Brosse (1571–1626), French architect. Isaac de Caus (1590–1648)...
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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...
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Giacomo Meyerbeer (category Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class))
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...
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libretto also by Scribe), and commissioned Meyerbeer's next opera Les Huguenots (1836, libretto by Scribe and Deschamps), whose success was to prove...
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Huguenots was a name given to French Calvinists from the 16th to the 18th century. Huguenot may also refer to: Huguenot, Georgia, a ghost town Huguenot...
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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...
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St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (redirect from The massacre of the Huguenots)
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...
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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...
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Julia Lezhneva (section Season 2010 - 2011: Rossini CD, Tour and Les Huguenots - with Marc Minkowski)
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...
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Cornélie Falcon (section Debut in Robert le diable)
greatest success was creating the role of Valentine in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots. She possessed "a full, resonant voice" with a distinctive dark timbre...
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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...
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pour le piano Op. 403, Romance & Rondo on Themes from the Opera 'Les Huguenots' Op. 404, Introduction et variations brillantes sur 'Les Huguenots' Op....
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Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann, the title role of Bizet's Carmen, Hansel in Humperdink's Hansel and Gretel, and Urbain in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots. In 2016...
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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...
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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,...
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with Giacomo Meyerbeer and Eugène Scribe on the libretti of Les Huguenots (1836) and Le prophète (1849). Synchronicity Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Deschamps...
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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...
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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...
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Navarre, intended to contribute to the reconciliation of Catholics and the Huguenots in France, was tarnished six days after the marriage ceremony by the St...
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giorno di regno (Verdi) Marguérite, Faust (Gounod) Marguérite de Valois, Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer) Maria Stuarda, Maria Stuarda (Donizetti) Mathilde, William...
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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...
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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...
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Sieglinde, Die Walküre (Wagner) Turandot, Turandot (Puccini) Valentine, Les Huguenots (Giacomo Meyerbeer) Vanessa, Vanessa (Samuel Barber) The following Wagnerian...
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by the opera manager Louis Véron to create a five-act grand opera (Les Huguenots). The opera was premiered on 16 June 1835 by the Opéra-Comique at the...
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l'as dit" that concludes the fourth act of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots.[citation needed] When writing works in all 24 major and minor keys...
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Alice, Robert and Bertram (Robert le diable); Fidès, Jean de Leyden and the three anabaptistes (Le prophète); Valentine, Raoul and Marcel (Les Huguenots)...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni as well as L'étoile du nord, Les Huguenots and La favorite. He also made history by creating several important...
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