Starting next Friday, July 26, at the 2024 Bard Summerscape festival, the Fisher Center at Bard will present the first new American production in almost five decades of Giacomo Meyerbeer's Le prophète ...

The composer Giacomo Meyerbeer got pushed out of the operatic canon because of anti-Semitism. That much is fact. But if you’re looking for a reason that Meyerbeer’s 1859 opera “Dinorah” hasn’t been ...

As a highlight of the 2024 Bard SummerScapefestival, the Fisher Center at Bard presents the first new American production in almost five decades of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Le prophète, an all-too-topical ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. (AP) — A demagogue ...

Once considered a giant of 19th century opera, Giacomo Meyerbeer has been relegated over the century to the second tier of composers, admired for his craftsmanship but faulted for lacking that ...

IF the ardent Gluckists and Piccinists quarreling over their wine and coffee in the Cafe de la Rotonde, with the busts of the two composers coolly looking down upon them as they exchanged their shots ...

The vanishing of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s once inescapable grand opera “Les Huguenots” is a mystery of musical history—almost a crime in need of solving. A panoramic tragedy of religious violence, ...

When Jonas Kaufmann cancelled Les Troyens at Covent Garden, this American tenor took over. Now Bryan Hymel has his own recital disc, showing off his personal blend of heroism and high notes — top Cs ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. (AP) — A demagogue and religious fanatics impose a theocracy. What sounds like a ripped-from-the-headlines 21st century story was portrayed by Giacomo Meyerbeer 175 years ago ...

This image released by Bard College shows Jennifer Feinstein as Fids, foreground center, and Robert Watson as Jean de Leyde, during a performance of "Le prophte," at Fisher Center at Bard College in ...