Guido et Ginevra
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Guido et Ginevra, ou La Peste de Florence is a grand opera in five acts by Fromental Halévy to a libretto by Eugène Scribe. It was premiered on 5 March 1838 by the Paris Opera at the Salle Le Peletier
The composer in 1825
Fromental Halévy
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Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy, was a French opera composer, widely regarded in his lifetime as one of the central figures of 19th-century French music.
Guido et Ginevra
…Guido et Ginevra, ou La Peste de Florence (French: Guido and Ginevra, or the Plague at Florence) is a grand opera in five acts by Fromental Halévy to a libretto by Eugène Scribe. It was premiered on 5 March 1838 by the Paris Opera at the Salle Le Peletier. Guido et Ginevra was only a moderate…
Fromental Halévy (c. 1860–62), by Étienne Carjat
The bust of Halévy on the façade of the Palais Garnier.
Lithograph of soprano Madeleine Nottes as Rachel in the opera "The Jewess", 1858, in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland.