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If we can believe Opera Orchestra of New York's publicity releases, it's been a long time -- since 1969, in fact -- since Les Huguenots, Giacomo Meyerbeer's 1836 drama of Catholic-Protestant tensions leading up to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572, has been performed in New York City. On April 23, OONY offered one of the grandest of French grand operas in a concert performance conducted by the company's music director, Eve Queler. It's hard to buy the argument that Meyerbeer is seldom performed simply because the style has gone out of fashion. The real reason is that his greatest works require enormous forces, as well as singers who can negotiate treacherous ...