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Once in a lifetime: although Fromental Halevy wrote thirty-two stage works, La Juive was the only one destined to survive.
Profile composers are not always the most enduring: witness the case of Fromental Halevy. La Juive, far and away Halevy's most successful work, returns to the Met repertory this season after a remarkable absence of sixty-seven years. There was a time when La Juive seemed all but given up for lost, but in recent years it has become progressively more familiar, with productions throughout the world. Yet the composer himself remains a shadowy figure. At times he is confused with his nephew Ludovic Halevy, librettist for Jacques Offenbach and Georges Bizet. Even during his lifetime, there was some question of whether he might be able to go the distance: La Juive represented ...
- Fromental Halevy: La Juive, Dossier de press parisienne 1835.
- Magazine article from: Notes Lamberton, Elizabeth December 1, 1993 700+ words
...Leich-Galland's "La Juive": Dossier de presse...journalistic riches surrounding Fromental Halevy's masterpiece, a work...historical importance, La Juive attracted little scholarly...the staging manual for La Juive was presented in H...
- Fromental Halevy: His Life and Music, 1799-1862.
- Magazine article from: Notes Hallman, Diana R. September 1, 1997 700+ words
...born composer Fromental Halevy, despite his...acknowledged masterpiece La Juive. (Exceptions...and edition, La Juive: Opera en cinq...Scribe, musique de Fromental Halevy [Saarbrucken...French Grand Opera La Juive (1835): A Socio...
- La Juive.(Concert notes)(Opera Review)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Smith, Patrick J. January 1, 2004 700+ words
...State Opera a production of Fromental Halevy's La Juive, one of the most famous examples...most Grand Opera, the plot of La Juive is overtly sensationalist...address this deficiency by staging La Juive in a vaguely modern setting...
- Hallman, Diana R. Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century...
- Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies Huebner, Steven September 22, 2004 700+ words
...The Politics of Halevy's La Juive. Cambridge: Cambridge UP...ISBN 0-521-65086-0 Fromental Halevy's five-act opera La Juive to a libretto by Eugene Scribe...back into the public eye. La Juive has been one of the main beneficiaries...
- Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth Century France: the Politics...
- Magazine article from: History Today Mourby, Adrian August 1, 2003 700+ words
...Paris Opera. Nowadays La Juive, with its improbabilities...Indeed the composer Fromental Halevy belonged to the first...out the librettist of La Juive was not a Jew. He...intolerance, Les Huguenots. Fromental Halevy had already written...
- 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
...s new production of La Juive that this was the company...Seigneur." Written by Fromental Halevy, a once-fashionable...librettist, Eugene Scribe, La Juive premiered at the Met...the Met has embraced La Juive wholeheartedly. There...
- 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...French-Jewish composer Fromental Halevy. One of Caruso's tenor...management to present "La Juive" for the first time...hour TV dramas. "La Juive" was an immediate success...
- Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France: The Politics...
- Magazine article from: Shofar Baron, John H. September 22, 2004 700+ words
...Politics of Halevy's La Juive, by Diana R. Hallman...00. When the opera La Juive (The Jewess) was premiered...liberal Christian, and Fromental Halevy, an up-and-coming...Although the opera La Juive was banned in some countries...
