Giacomo Meyerbeer

Jacob Liebmann Beer, better known as Giacomo Meyerbeer

A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874

Due to a government slight, however, Garnier had to pay 120 francs to attend the opening gala, which included hugely popular scenes from Giacomo Meyerbeer's "Les Huguenots" and Fromental Halévy's "La Juive."

Architecture as Allegory Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

She acidly refers to her younger sisters as "common dogs" and, after seeing Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "Le prophète," petulantly announces: "I have no time for Jewish music!"

Out of Austria, Into Australia Maxwell Carter 2011

Brussels opera "Les Hugenots" stages the historical opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer under direction of Marc Minkowski with a cast that includes Marlis Petersen, Eric Cutler, Mireille Delunsch and others.

What's on Around Europe 2011

General opera audiences, accustomed to African stage characters only as exotic royal heroines like the title characters of Verdi's "Aida" and Giacomo Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine," would have taken scant interest in a moralizing work about a rural Arkansas community of former slaves led by a school teacher.

'Treemonisha' as It Was Intended To Be Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

In opera, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giuseppe Verdi and their adherents upheld the dominance of the vocal line within the familiar structures of arias and concerted ensembles linked by recitative.

At the Ravinia Festival, A Liszt of Subtle Works Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

For instance, the mock-dramatic love duet in "Croquefer," Offenbach's one-act 1857 send-up of medieval knighthood, comedically quotes the love themes from Jacques Halévy's "La Juive" and Giacomo Meyerbeer's "Robert le Diable" and "Les Huguenots," three of the most popular grand operas of that day.

Gilbert & Sullivan, Parody's Patresfamilias Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

There were splendid dinners, tableaux vivants, piano performances by young Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 – 1864), and so on.

Fanny Baronin Von Arnstein. 2009

This year there's the wonderful add-on of the once universally popular but now rarely encountered historical grand opera Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer at Bard College's Summer Festival, just a few miles south of the route I normally take to get to Cooperstown.

Archive 2009-07-01 Will 2009

This year there's the wonderful add-on of the once universally popular but now rarely encountered historical grand opera Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer at Bard College's Summer Festival, just a few miles south of the route I normally take to get to Cooperstown.

DesignerBlog Will 2009