La Juive is a grand opera in five acts by Fromental Halévy to an original French libretto by Eugène Scribe; it was first performed at the Opéra, Paris, on February 23, 1835. La Juive was one of the ...

Metropolitan Opera announced that it will suspend performances during the first two weeks of the year, when ticket sales lag -- an unsettling first in its century-plus history. So the audiences ...

Sony Classical has just released a CD of a recording more famous for being out of print than available: selections from Fromental Halévy's La Juive "The Jewess," recorded in London in 1974, with ...

The revival of an opera that ends with the state-ordered execution of its title character (“The Jewess”) for the crime of loving a Christian is still a risky business, but with an unaccustomed eye ...

We’re only five days into it, but already the Royal Opera’s French-themed 2006-7 season has justified itself. The first of two concert performances of Fromental Halévy’s La Juive at the Barbican was a ...

With its particularly strong and poignant action this grand opéra highlights two Jewish people's outsider status through intrigue, love and oppression. This work, from 1835, was extremely popular at ...

Streaming platforms for Giovanni Martinelli Tenor Assisted by Louis DAngelo Bass of the Metropolitan Opera Company in a Duet from Act IV of the Opera La juive haven’t been announced yet. Check back ...

On Jan. 31, 1936, at New York's Metropolitan Opera, audiences watched an old Jewish man -- called the "Shylock of opera" and inevitably referred to as "vengeful" or "implacable" -- send his adopted ...

Most composers would probably be astonished to see how radically contemporary directors and designers reimagine and reinterpret their operas nowadays, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they would all ...