#giacomo meyerbeer

[opera-ghosts]

Today a performance of Meyerbeers Grand Opera „Les Huguenots“ 1891. This performance was the Debut from Lillian Nordica at The Metropolitan Opera. 

#classical music #opera #music history #bel canto #composer #classical composer #aria #classical studies #maestro #chest voice #Les Huguenots #Giacomo Meyerbeer #Lillian Nordica #Dramatic soprano #soprano #Metropolitan Opera #Met #classical musician #classical musicians #classical history #history of music #historian of music #opera history #musician #musicians #diva #prima donna #cast

[feliscatussohn]

Therapist: Romantic German-Jewish opera composer as a teddy bear isn't real he can't hurt you

Him:

#giacomo meyerbeer #giacomo teddybeer #teddybeer #meyerbeer #classical composers #romanticism #romantic composers

[emilia-chopin]

Galerie des compositeurs dramatiques modernes" (1844) by Nicolas-Eustache Maurin (d. 1850).

The engraving shows:

(back row left to right): Hector Berlioz, Gaetano Donizetti, George Onslow, Daniel Auber, Felix Mendelssohn, Henri-Montan Berton.

(front row left to right): Fromental Halévy, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Gaspare Spontini, Gioacchino Rossini.

@mendyson @berliozussy-official

#hector berlioz #felix mendelssohn #gaetano donizetti #daniel auber #henri-montan berton #fromental halévy #giacomo meyerbeer #gaspare spontini #gioachino rossini #classical composer #classical composers #george onslow

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

so the mariinsky theatre is doing a new production of les huguenots, and while a) 🖕to the russian state in general and b) 🖕to valery gergiev (the conductor) in particular,

HELLO??????????????????

(re: the production photos in general)

#HAROLD?????????? #opera tag #opera #les huguenots #meyerbeer #giacomo meyerbeer #also the production photos in general FUCK (positive) #thank you director for my marguérite/valentine RIGHTS

[lesser-known-composers]

Lisette Oropesa in Meyerbeer's (1791-1864) 'Les Huegenots'

'Ô beau pays de la Touraine' Michele Mariotti

#giacomo meyerbeer #opera #classical music #Youtube

[marcelshistorydump]

Screaming crying

#GOSH THEY ARE SO CUTE #HHHHHHHHHH #giacomo meyerbeer #minna meyerbeer #his nicknames for her dang it #literally laments if he doesn't write to her #WGEGGSGSJECEDWFEYDG

[mendyson]

I never expected you to be the kind to have some...adversaries, Herr Mendelssohn.

He may not be an adversary of yours if I am mistaken, yet you seem to condemn Giacomo Meyerbeer.

You could say that more than several composers of my time are my adversaries, in that sense!

I will criticise music I dislike — only in front of my intimates, of course — thus it is needless to say that Meyerbeer’s operas are just bad. I have said this once and I can say it again that they are frigid and heartless and he can only manage to save his performances with one or two scenes.

#mendyanon #felix mendelssohn #giacomo meyerbeer

[doyouknowthisopera]

#opera tag #operablr #giacomo meyerbeer #les huguenots

[pedanther]

In case anyone wasn't sure why the chapter is called "Robert le diable", it's because that's the name of the opera everybody except Haydée is too busy gossiping to pay attention to. It was a very popular opera at the time, but it's also, like all the Byronic references in the Roman opera chapter, symbolically relevant to the Count.

The plot of the opera, which I'm not going to attempt to recount in all its melodramatic convolution here, involves a young man who is tempted to go down a dark path, with his diabolical tempter playing on his love for his fiancée (and particularly his fear of losing her to a Spanish rival) and his grief at the death of his parent.

There are probably a whole bunch of parallels one could draw out, and then argue about whether Dumas was putting that much thought into it, but for the moment I'll content myself with one that Dumas specifically calls attention to: the Count leaves the opera house at the end of Act 3 (out of a total of five) – which is the point at which Robert is freshly committed to his path and has not yet started to recognise that there are going to be Consequences.

#the cristo account #the count of monte cristo #chapter 53 #robert le diable #giacomo meyerbeer #not a reblog

[sixty-silver-wishes]

this is more or less what happened

#giacomo meyerbeer #richard wagner #classical music #composers #history #music history #classical music history #meme

[soundgrammar]

Opera composer Giacomo Meyerbeer (September 5, 1791 – May 2, 1864)

#Giacomo Meyerbeer #opera #classical music #composer

[opera-ghosts]

This is another 140 years old original castlist from the Royal Opera Covent Garden 1884. Meyerbeers Opera „Les Huguenots“ Look this great cast! 

#classical music #opera #music history #bel canto #composer #classical composer #aria #classical studies #maestro #chest voice #Royal Opera House #Covent Garden #Les Huguenots #Giacomo Meyerbeer #Pauline Lucca #dramatic soprano #soprano #Sofia Scalchi #contralto #mezzo-soprano #Marcella Sembrich #dramatic coloratura soprano #The Nightingale #classical musicain #classical musicians #classical history #opera history #history of music #historian of music #musician

[feliscatussohn]

Carl Maria von Weber's one-sided beef with Salieri will never not be funny to me. Like here's my least favorite italian grosspapa. I've heard from my dear kinsman Constanze Mozart that he fucking poisoned our precious composer Amadeus momo. Unforgivable. And besides he adviced my bestest bestie Jacob to go to Italy and now he goes by fucking Giacomo. His surname changed??? to meyerbeer too I don't know how that happened. Anyway he don't do german music with me now and it's all your fault kill die die die italian poison man i hate hate you hate hate hate hate no rossini stop joking its not a joke hate hate hate hate

#classical composers #carl maria von weber #giacomo teddybeer #giacomo meyerbeer #antonio salieri #amadeus wolfgang mozart

[mlle-christine-nilsson]

Christina Nilsson as Alice (Robert le diable - Giacomo Meyerbeer); Paris 1870s.

Photographer: Charles Reutlinger

#Reutlinger #photography #carte de visite #christine daaé #christine nillson #christina nilsson #kristina nilsson #opera singer #soprano #dramatic coloratura soprano #coloratura soprano #composer #swedish nightingale #the nightingale #opera paris #Meyerbeer #Giacomo Meyerbeer #Robert le diable #bel canto #music history #classical music #classical studies #aria #diva #primadonna #le fantôme de l'opéra #gaston leroux #leroux #The Phantom of the opera #Robert the Devil

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

also happy birthday to two of the best in early/mid 19th century opera (a composer and opera respectively):

happy birthday rossini!!! (featuring a few great complete recordings and all-rossini recital albums)

and happy birthday les huguenots!!!!

#their birthdays only come around once every four years! #opera tag #opera #rossini #gioachino rossini #meyerbeer #giacomo meyerbeer #les huguenots #leap day #also: shoutout and happy birthday to frederic from pirates of penzance #Spotify

[lesser-known-composers]

Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)

#Giacomo Meyerbeer