Robert le diable was first performed at the Paris Opéra on November 21, 1831. The theatre’s new manager, Louis Véron, spared no expense with it, and the premiere caused a musical and theatrical ...

LONDON - Degas painted it. Chopin wrote variations on it. Balzac and Dumas mentioned it in their fiction. The Paris Opera performed it 100 times in just three years. For more than a half-century after ...

It was back in 1890 that Covent Garden last staged Meyerbeer’s grand opera – once a repertory mainstay that subsequently fell out of fashion with the rest of his output. It’s a brave undertaking to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The audience at London's Royal Opera House is in for a big surprise on Thursday night. They will witness German composer Giacomo Meyerbeer's 1831 grand opera "Robert le Diable" ...

LONDON—"Robert le diable" was first performed at the Royal Opera House in 1832, the year after Giacomo Meyerbeer's medieval extravaganza premiered in Paris. Though the performance I saw this week was ...