Giacomo Meyerbeer
Born: 5th September 1791, Berlin
Died: 2nd May 1864, Paris
Nationality: German
Giacomo Meyerbeer was a German opera composer, "the most frequently performed opera composer during the nineteenth century, linking Mozart and Wagner". With his 1831 opera Robert le diable and its successors, he gave the genre of grand opera 'decisive character'. Meyerbeer's grand opera style was achieved by his merging of German orchestra style with Italian vocal tradition. These were employed in the context of sensational and melodramatic libretti created by Eugène Scribe and were enhanced by the up-to-date theatre technology of the Paris Opéra. They set a standard that helped to maintain Paris as the opera capital of the nineteenth century.
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Further Reading: Meyerbeer
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Meyerbeer's Le prophète from Mark Elder and the London Symphony Orchestra
2nd Jul 2024
This weird and wonderful opera about a Flanders innkeeper who is radicalised into religious extremism really catches fire on a live recording from last year's Aix-en-Provence Festival, with the London Symphony Orchestra on barnstorming form and American tenor John Osborn at the top of his game in the demanding title-role.
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In The Shadows with Michael Spyres
1st Mar 2024
The American singer teams up with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset to explore some of the operas which influenced Wagner - including works by Méhul, Beethoven, Meyerbeer and Spontini.
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Popular Works: Meyerbeer
- Bellah! ma chèvre chérie! … Dors, petite (Dinorah) (3)
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- Nonnes, qui reposez (from Robert le Diable) (4)
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- Pays merveilleux... Ô paradis (from L'Africaine) (15)
- Plus blanche que la blanche hermine (from Les Huguenots) (6)
- Robert Le Diable (5)
- Robert, toi que j'aime (from Robert le Diable) (5)
- Scirocco (6)
- Seigneur, rampart et seul soutien..Piff, paff, piff (from Les Huguenots) (4)
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- Sie und ich (7)
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- Voici donc les debris… Nonnes qui reposez (from Robert le Diable) (5)
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