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Halevy's La Juive

09/07/2016

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Halevy's La Juive from Bavarian State Opera conducted by Bertrand de Billy.

A performance of Halevy's La Juive from Bavarian State Opera conducted by Bertrand de Billy and starring soprano Aleksandra Kurzak as Rachel and tenor Roberto Alagna as Eleazar.

Halévy: La Juive

Although Fromental Halévy wrote almost forty operas, La Juive is the only opera of his that we're likely to hear today, but it is an early high point of French grand opera and was one of the most performed works in the nineteenth century. Halévy was among the most successful composers of his time, and his distinguished admirers included Berlioz, Wagner and Mahler, who regarded La Juive as one of the greatest operas ever created. The libretto was by Scribe, a dramatic writer of the time too, but despite the opera's grandeur, La Juive tells a profoundly human story, of an impossible love between a Christian man and a Jewish woman.

Alexandra Wilson introduces this recent performance from the Bavarian State Opera, which stars soprano Aleksandra Kurzak as Rachel, the opera's title character, and Roberto Alagna as her father, the Jewish goldsmith Eleazar. The Chorus and Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera are conducted by Bertrand de Billy.

Rachel ..... Aleksandra Kurzak (soprano)
Eléazar ..... Roberto Alagna (tenor)
Léopold ..... John Osborn (tenor)
Princess Eudoxie ..... Vera-Lotte Böcker (soprano)
Cardinal Gian Francesco de Brogni ..... Ain Anger (bass)
Ruggiero ..... Andrea Borghini (baritone)
Albert ..... Tariq Nazmi (bass)
A Herald in the Imperial Army ..... Christian Rieger (baritone)
An Officer to the Emperor ..... Petr Nekoranec (baritone)
Executioner ..... Peter Lobert (bass)

The Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera
The Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera
Bertrand de Billy (conductor).

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