A summer season of works staged at the Paris Opera, 1828-65. 3:Lajuive Set in 1414, Jacques Fromenthal Halevy 's epic opera, confronts antisemitism, inter-racial relationships and a father unwittingly condemning his own daughter to death in a cauldron of boiling oil. It was one of the Opera's greatest hits, with almost 500 performances in the 50 years from its premiere in February 1835. (sung in French) Forthcoming records, with, a Jewish AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS PHILHARMONIA/ ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA Acts 1 and 2
3.25 Basil Deane on Halevy and Parisian taste in the mid 1830s.
3.35 Acts 3, 4 and 5