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Channeling La Juive: Ira Siff encounters Neil Shicoff during the making of a new music video based on Halevy's opera.
March 4, 2003: on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts, New York City's oldest synagogue, now houses a studio for the sculptor after whom it is named oil the upper level, a shell of the original synagogue below. The space, used for performances, parties and film shoots, as well as religious services, is empty, save for a small table, tenor Neil Shicoff, director Sidney Lumet and his notes, and a boom box, blasting the edited soundtrack of Shicoff singing the aria "Rachel, quand du Seigneur," the most celebrated excerpt from Fromental Halevy's La Juive. It's the end of" a long rehearsal day. Shicoff goes through the paces that Lumet has ...
- Review: 'La Juive' revived at Met Opera.
- News wire article from: United Press International December 7, 2003 700+ words
...Opera's revival of "La Juive" (The Jewess), a...successors at the Met, Neil Shicoff, is credited with persuading...management to present "La Juive" for the first time...hour TV dramas. "La Juive" was an immediate success...
- NEW MET SEASON TO FEATURE `BENVENUTO CELLINI,' LA JUIVE'.(LIFESTYLE)
- Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI) March 12, 2003 700+ words
...production of Halevy's rarely heard "La Juive," and revivals of a Stravinsky...the sets are by George Tsypin. "La Juive" opens Nov. 6, its first performance...Elizabeth Futral is Princess Eudoxie, Neil Shicoff is Eleazar, Eric Cutler is Leopold...
- Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth Century France: the Politics...
- History Today Mourby, Adrian August 1, 2003 700+ words
...Century France The Politics of Halevy's La Juive Diana R. Hallman Cambridge University...Subtitled The Politics of Halevy's La Juive this adapted thesis speaks to us from...extermination. The first production of La Juive (The Jewess) took place in 1835, a...
- La Juive Resurrected: Fine Cast, Muddled Staging.(Arts&Entertainment)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) November 24, 2003 700+ words
...night of the Met's new production of La Juive that this was the company's 63rd performance...that of his librettist, Eugene Scribe, La Juive premiered at the Met in 1885. Subsequent...special marketing--the Met has embraced La Juive wholeheartedly. There's even a portrait...
- Fromental Halevy: La Juive, Dossier de press parisienne 1835.
- Magazine article from: Notes Lamberton, Elizabeth December 1, 1993 700+ words
...social life. Karl Leich-Galland's "La Juive": Dossier de presse parisienne (1835...Despite its historical importance, La Juive attracted little scholarly attention until...Most recently, the staging manual for La Juive was presented in H. Robert Cohen's...
- La Juive. (Miscellaneous).
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Knapp, Bettina L. June 22, 2001 700+ words
Colette Mainguy. La Juive Paris. Stock. 2001. 253 pages 105...disclosed concerning the author's life, La Juive should be read by all parents contemplating...to-do family is Catholic, she is "La Juive," identifying with the suffering inflicted...
- La Juive.(Concert notes)(Opera Review)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Smith, Patrick J. January 1, 2004 700+ words
...Opera a production of Fromental Halevy's La Juive, one of the most famous examples of the...As with most Grand Opera, the plot of La Juive is overtly sensationalist, revolving...to address this deficiency by staging La Juive in a vaguely modern setting, so suggesting...
- Hallman, Diana R. Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century...
- Nineteenth-Century French Studies Huebner, Steven September 22, 2004 700+ words
...Century France: The Politics of Halevy's La Juive. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. Pp...Fromental Halevy's five-act opera La Juive to a libretto by Eugene Scribe enjoyed...repertoire back into the public eye. La Juive has been one of the main beneficiaries...