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Fromental Halévy Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy (; 27 May 179917 March 1862), was a French composer. He is known today largely for his opera '' La Juive''. Early career Halévy was born in Paris, son of the cantor ...
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Eugène Scribe Augustin Eugène Scribe (; 24 December 179120 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing "well-made plays" ("pièces bien faites"), a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of man ...
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. The opera is based extremely loosely on themes of the novel ''
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. Whilst the novel is set in 19th century Paris and the Wandering Jew is incidental to the main story-line, the opera begins in Amsterdam in 1190 and the Jew Ahasuerus (spelled Ashvérus in the opera) is a leading character.


Performance history

''Le Juif errant'' was premiered at the
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of the
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on 23 April 1852, and had 48 further performances over two seasons. The music was sufficiently popular to generate a ''Wandering Jew
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'' and in France just in the several months after the opera was premiered an even more considerable quantity of piano works, including several called "Grande fantaisie dramatique" and similar titles, based on the opera.


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References

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Further reading

* Jordan, Ruth (1994). ''Fromental Halévy: His Life & Music, 1799–1862''. London: Kahn & Averill. . * Macdonald, Hugh (2001). "Halévy, (Jacques-François-)Fromental(-Elie) romentin(-Elias) in ''
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'', 2nd edition, edited by
Stanley Sadie Stanley John Sadie (; 30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the '' Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' (1980), which was publ ...
. London: Macmillan. (hardcover). (eBook). * Scribe, Eugène (1858). ''Le Juif errant'' in ''Oeuvres complètes de M. Eugène Scribe'', new edition, volume XVII, pp. 149–164. Paris: Adolphe Delahays
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External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Juif errant, Le Operas French-language operas Operas by Fromental Halévy Grand operas 1852 operas Opera world premieres at the Paris Opera Wandering Jew Libretti by Eugène Scribe