LONDON - Degas painted it. Chopin wrote variations on it. Balzac and Dumas mentioned it in their fiction. The Paris Opera performed it 100 times in just three years. For more than a half-century after ...

Normally the drama happens on the stage, not in the wings. Not so in Covent Garden, where opera director Laurent Pelly has swapped the leading lady in his production of Giacomo Meyerbeer's epic opera ...

Robert le Diable, the first opera in French by Giacomo Meyerbeer, was inspired by the medieval legend of the Norman duke Robert, with at its heart the eternal struggle between good and evil. With its ...

Meyerbeer’s Robert le diable is an opera that very few singers will ever have performed, learnt or encountered, writes Rupert Christiansen. Performance of Robert le Diable in 1831, an opera by Giacomo ...

The premiere of Meyerbeer's opera Robert le Diable was one of the most significant musical events of the 1830s. Ever since its appearance, it has been known that the work was based on an opéra comique ...

Indeed, if you were to judge last night on the first act you might have been confused on many fronts. Confused at the high standing of director Laurent Pelly, whose set was a mess. Confused at the ...

In the first half of the 19th century, Giacomo Meyerbeer was perhaps the world's most successful opera composer, pioneering on-stage theatrics as he worked comfortably across European cultures.

nepalnepal — Degas painted it. Chopin wrote variations on it. Balzac and Dumas mentioned it in their fiction. The Paris Opera performed it 100 times in just three years. For more than a half-century ...

Bryan Hymel as Robert (centre) in Robert le diable at the Royal Opera House. Credit: Photo: Alastair Muir Opera has a pretty narrow repertoire with the same two dozen or so classic works continually ...

LONDON – Degas painted it. Chopin wrote variations on it. Balzac and Dumas mentioned it in their fiction. The Paris Opera performed it 100 times in just three years. For more than a half-century after ...