Meyerbeer
Americannoun
noun
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Attendees at the 1864 premiere there included not only the Parisian elite but the composers Meyerbeer, Auber and Ambroise Thomas; in rehearsal, Rossini himself turned pages for the first pianist and nodded tempo instructions.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
But when he started, he took on large-scale repertory that tends to trip up even seasoned directors: “Die Zauberflöte,” “Der Rosenkavalier,” a trio of works by Meyerbeer, “Tannhäuser.”
From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2022
Her first was “L’Enfant de la montagne,” published when she was just 19 in a collection organized by Meyerbeer, Paganini and Cherubini.
From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2021
Even before the voices enter, Meyerbeer has evoked religion’s fraught grip on the human psyche.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018
Giacomo Meyerbeer and Jacques Offenbach - the noms de plume, in fact, of two German Jews originally named Jacob - took the Paris opera world by storm in the 1830s and ’40s.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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