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Meyerbeer

[ mahy-er-beer; German mahy-uhr-beyr ]

noun

  1. Gia·co·mo [jah, -kaw-maw], Jakob Liebmann Beer, 1791–1864, German composer.


Meyerbeer

/ ˈmaiərbeːr /

noun

  1. MeyerbeerGiacomo17911864MGermanMUSIC: composer Giacomo (ˈdʒaːkomo), real name Jakob Liebmann Beer. 1791–1864, German composer, esp of operas, such as Robert le diable (1831) and Les Huguenots (1836)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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“I keep a mental picture of Meyerbeer,” he said, referring to the once ubiquitous and now rarely heard 19th-century composer, “just to remind myself: Here today, gone tomorrow.”

She also cultivates 18th- and 19th-century operatic repertoire from Mozart to Meyerbeer, at prominent houses such as Zurich Opera and the Paris Opera.

In her first season in Hanover, Berman scored a hit with Halévy’s religious potboiler “La Juive” — which, like Meyerbeer’s grand operas, faded from the repertory by the early 20th century.

Her first was “L’Enfant de la montagne,” published when she was just 19 in a collection organized by Meyerbeer, Paganini and Cherubini.

Grand operas by Meyerbeer are now treated as curiosities, yet during his lifetime they were ubiquitous.

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