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<\/a>Giacomo Meyerbeer, Title page, Robert le Diable. Mus 743.3.601.5 (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div><\/em><\/div>\n
In his mature scores — Robert le Diable<\/em> (1831), Les Huguenots<\/em> (1836), Le Proph\u00e8te<\/em> (1849), L\u2019\u00e9toile du Nord<\/em> (1854), L\u2019Africaine<\/em> (1865, posth.), all to libretti by Scribe and first performed at the Paris Op\u00e9ra, and Le Pardon de Plo\u00ebrmel (Dinorah)<\/em> (1859), first given at the Op\u00e9ra comique (Salle Favart) to a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carr\u00e9 (librettists also for Gounod\u2019s Faust<\/em> and Rom\u00e9o et Juliette<\/em>, Thomas\u2019 Mignon<\/em> and Hamlet<\/em>, and Offenbach\u2019s Les Contes d\u2019Hoffmann<\/em>) — the composer established a highly popular genre in which musical numbers combined pomp, ritual, and highly inventive orchestration evoking local color, in works where large choruses and intimate arias and duets are interspersed with balletic divertissements within the context of a sweeping historical canvas. <\/p>\n Also available are three early Italian works. Margarita d\u2019Anjou<\/em> premiered at La Scala in 1820, to a text by Felice Romani, librettist for many operas of Bellini (including La Sonnambula<\/em> and Norma<\/em>), Donizetti (L\u2019elisir d\u2019amore<\/em>, Lucrezia Borgia<\/em>, Anna Bolena<\/em>), Rossini (Il Turco in Italia<\/em>) and Verdi (Un giorno di regno<\/em>). <\/p>\n Emma di Resburgo<\/em> and Il Crociato in Egitto<\/em> are both Venetian operas, the former first given at the Teatro San Benedetto in 1819, and Il Crociato in Egitto<\/em> at Teatro La Fenice in 1824, to libretti by Gaetano Rossi, librettist of Rossini\u2019s Tancredi<\/em> and Semiramide<\/em>, as well as to many operas by Johann Simon Mayr, Saverio Mercadante, and Donizetti (Linda di Chamounix<\/em>, Maria Padilla<\/em>). Il Crociato in Egitto<\/em> was the first work to bring Meyerbeer recognition throughout Europe, and the last operatic work by a major composer to contain a major role for castrato (1824).<\/p>\n Find these scores in our collection of Digital Scores and Libretti<\/a>, or browse the list in HOLLIS<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
\nRobert le Diable : op\u00e9ra en 5 actes \/ paroles de MM. E. Scribe & G. Delavigne ; musique de Giacomo Meyerbeer ; partition de piano, arrang\u00e9e par J.P. Pixis. [1st ed.]. Paris: M. Schlesinger, [1831]. Mus 743.3.601.5<\/li>\n
\nLes Huguenots : op\u00e9ra en cinq actes \/ paroles de Scribe ; musique de G. Meyerbeer ; partition chant et piano. Ed. d\u00e9finitive et compl\u00e8te. Paris : Ph. Maquet, [1888?]. Mus 743.3.624<\/li>\n
\nLe proph\u00e8te : op\u00e9ra en 5 actes \/ paroles de M.E. Scribe ; musique de G. Meyerbeer ; partition pour piano et chant ; arrang\u00e9e par Garaud\u00e9. Paris : Brandus & Cie., [1849?]. Mus 743.3.661.1<\/li>\n
\nL\u2019\u00e9toile du nord : op\u00e9ra comique en trois actes \/ paroles de Mr. E. Scribe ; musique de G. Meyerbeer ; partition piano et chant par A. de Garand\u00e9. Paris : Brandus, [1854?]. Mus 743.3.642<\/li>\n
\nLa stella del Nord : opera semiseria in tre atti \/ di Eugenio Scribe ; traduzione di E. Picchi ; musica di G. Meyerbeer ; riduzione con accompagnamento di pianoforte. Milano : F. Lucca, [1868?]. Mus 743.3.640.5<\/li>\n
\nL\u2019Africaine : deuxi\u00e8me partie de l\u2019op\u00e9ra en 5 actes \/ paroles de E. Scribe ; musique de G. Meyerbeer ; partition chant et piano [par E. Vauthrot] pr\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9e d\u2019une pr\u00e9face de J. F\u00e9tis et contenant 22 morceaux et fragments in\u00e9dits … qui n\u2019ont pas \u00e9t\u00e9 ex\u00e9cut\u00e9s \u00e0 la repr\u00e9sentation de l\u2019Op\u00e9ra \u00e0 Paris. Paris : G. Brandus & S. Dufour, [1865?]. Mus 743.3.666<\/li>\n
\nL\u2019Africaine : op\u00e9ra en cinq actes \/ paroles de E. Scribe ; musique de Giacomo Meyerbeer ; partition chant & piano arrang\u00e9e par E. Vauthrot. Paris : G. Brandus & S. Dufour, [1865?]. Mus 743.3.666.3<\/li>\n
\nL\u2019Africaine : op\u00e9ra en 5 actes \/ paroles de E. Scribe ; musique de G. Meyerbeer ; partition chant & piano arrang\u00e9e par E. Vauthrot. Paris : G. Brandus & S. Dufour, [1865?] . Mus 743.3.666.5<\/li>\n
\nLe pardon de Plo\u00ebrmel : op\u00e9ra comique en trois actes \/ paroles de J. Barbieret M. Carr\u00e9 ; musique de Giacomo Meyerbeer ; partition chant et piano. Paris : G. Brandus et S. Dufour, [1859?]. Mus 743.3.692.5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\nMargherita d\u2019Anjou : opera semiseria in due atti \/ Composto e ridotto per il cembalo da G. Meyerbeer. Paris : M. Schlesinger, [1827?]. Mus 743.3.610 B<\/li>\n
\nEmma von Roxburgh : grosse Oper in zwei Aufz\u00fcgen \/ componirt von J. Meyerbeer ; vollst\u00e4ndiger Klavier-Auszug mit deutschem und italienischem text von J.P. Schmidt. Berlin : in der Schlesingerschen Buch- und Musikhandlung ; Schlesinger, [1820?]. Mus 743.3.676<\/li>\n
\nIl crociato in Egitto : opera seria. Ridotto con accompagniamento de pianoforte. Paris, Chez Pacini, [18–]. Mus 743.3.650<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n