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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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A Nap at Opera – II
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 29th March 2013“Sleep – the opera was invented for no other purpose.” The opera being performed at the time the remark was made was Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable. Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo (It’s 1838 at this point in the novel) Interestingly the opera was recently revived at London’s Royal Opera House apparently without much success.
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