Meyerbeer

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German composer of operas in a style that influenced Richard Wagner (1791-1864)

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' After Meyerbeer 's successful opera Robert le Diable (1831), neo-medievalists and occultists began to apply the name Robin Goodfellow to the Devil, with appropriately extravagant imagery. Source: Internet

Harding, p. 119 Although most of Saint-Saëns's operas have remained neglected, Crichton rates them as important in the history of French opera, as "a bridge between Meyerbeer and the serious French operas of the early 1890s". Source: Internet

The short program was based on Giacomo Meyerbeer 's ballet Les Patineurs in which Boitano plays a cocky young man showing off his tricks, using movements dating back to the 19th century. Source: Internet

The composer Giacomo Meyerbeer described the third act of Otello thus: "The third act of Otello established its reputation so firmly that a thousand errors could not shake it". Source: Internet

The last great operatic castrato was Giovanni Battista Velluti (1781–1861), who performed the last operatic castrato role ever written: Armando in Il crociato in Egitto by Meyerbeer (Venice, 1824). Source: Internet

This grand opera rivalled the works of Meyerbeer in popularity. Source: Internet

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