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Halévy: La Juive
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Halévy: La Juive
Genre: Classical
 
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All Artists: Fromental Halevy
Title: Halévy: La Juive
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Philips Import
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 4/10/2006
Album Type: Import
Genre: Classical
Style: Opera & Classical Vocal
Number of Discs: 3
SwapaCD Credits: 3
UPCs: 028947576297, 0028947576297
 

CD Reviews

Spectacular but incoherent
Jethro Manjay | Carlisle, PA United States | 07/25/2009
(4 out of 5 stars)

"LA JUIVE is a spectacular French grand opera not unlike LES HUGUENOTS, within a historical context, and with a well crafted libretto by Scribe.



This recording is very good, with Carreras in poor vocal estate (but adequately so, as a tormented old man), two classy and well differentiated ladies, a good bass, and a bright-voiced second tenor (whose French is un peu bizarre).



If you like a lot of ensembles where all the principals participate, one after the other: "I shudder, I tremble, the ground is opening under me" and so forth, with chorus and lots of percussion, this is for you. However, the various components do not make a coherent whole. The transitions between numbers are inane and jarring, as if the whole score had been edited by a student.



For 21 Century audiences, LA JUIVE is all about form. The emotion generated, while genuine, is admiration for some of the architecture (not identification) plus a certain dose of camp. If you want an opera about father/daughter revelations, listen to SIMON BOCCANEGRA and you'll see the difference."