La Juive
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La Juive is a grand opera in five acts by Fromental Halévy to an original French libretto by Eugène Scribe; it was first performed at the Opéra, Paris, on 23 February 1835.
Cornélie Falcon as Rachel, the title role, portrait by A.Colin (1835)
Cardinal washing the feet of Éléazar, Bavarian State Opera 2016, director: Calixto Bieito
Rachele, costume design for L'ebrea, Italian version of the opera, 1865.
Act 1 of the original 1835 production, design by Charles Séchan, Léon Feuchère, Jules Dieterle, and Édouard Desplechin
Grand opera
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Grand opera is a genre of 19th-century opera generally in four or five acts, characterized by large-scale casts and orchestras. The original productions consisted of spectacular design and stage effects with plots normally based on or around dramatic historic events. The term is particularly applied to certain productions of the Paris Opéra from the late 1820s to around 1860; 'grand opéra' has sometimes been used to denote the Paris Opéra itself.
Degas (1871): Ballet of the Nuns from Meyerbeer's Robert le diable (1831); one of the earliest sensations of grand opera
Set design by Francesco Bagnara for act 1 of Il crociato in Egitto by Meyerbeer
Meyerbeer Le Prophète set design for the final conflagration by Philippe Chaperon
Le Cid, Massanet, ballet at Le Cid's camp. Set by Rubé, Chaperon and Jambon.