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Opera Massacres I – Two by Meyerbeer
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 6th June 2025Death and opera are as linked as bacon and eggs. The subject of this short series of articles is wholesale death – death that kills not only the principals, but the supers as well. This grim occurrence often gets the composer’s best effort, which is my excuse for presenting it. I’ll start with Meyerbeer. He…
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Plus Blanche Que La Blanche Hermine
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 7th December 2012Giacomo Meyerbeer was the most popular opera composer of the 19th century. Les Huguenots (premiered at the Paris Opera in 1836) was his most popular opera. It was performed 125 times by the Metropolitan Opera over a span of 29 years. The last of these was in 1915. After that silence. The opera’s pivotal tenor role was sung…
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