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Singer / Composer of Classical
A.k.a. Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer
German opera composer of Jewish birth who has been described as perhaps the most successful stage composer of the nineteenth century. b. 05/09/1791 in Vogelsdorf/Berlin, Germany d. 02/05/1864 in Paris, France Meyerbeer's father was a very wealthy financier and his mother also had an elite background. Meyerbeer's siblings included the astronomer Wilhelm Beer and the poet Michael Beer. He adopted the surname Meyerbeer on the death of his grandfather Liebmann Meyer Wulff (1811) and the first name Giacomo during his period of study in Italy, around 1817. Meyerbeer won his first great success at the Paris Opéra in 1831 with Robert le diable (‘Robert the Devil’). This was followed by 'Les Huguenots,' 'Le Prophète' and finally by 'L’Africaine,' all three with texts by the famous librettist Eugène Scribe.
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Grand Opera | Giacomo Meyerbeer - Diana Damrau, Orchestre De L'Opéra De Lyon Et Chœurs De L'Opéra De Lyon, Emmanuel Villaume | 2017 | Album |
Le Prophete | Giacomo Meyerbeer | 2016 | Album |
Overtures And Entr'actes From The French Operas | Giacomo Meyerbeer, The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Darrell Ang | 2014 | Album |
Ballet Music From The Operas | Giacomo Meyerbeer | 2014 | Album |
Robert Le Diable | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Daniel Oren | 2013 | Album |
Il Crociato in Egitto | Michael Maniaci, Patrizia Ciofi, Marco Vinco, Laura Polverelli, Fernando Portari, Emmanuel Villaume, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Giacomo Meyerbeer | 2007 | Album |
Les Grands Roles de Mario del Monaco | Mario del Monaco, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Pietro Mascagni, Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Giacomo Puccini | 2006 | Album |
L'Africaine (I) | Giacomo Meyerbeer / Shirley Verrett, Placido Domingo, Ruth Ann Swenson, Justino Diaz, San Francisco Opera Chorus And San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Maurizio Arena, Lotfi Mansouri, Brian Large | 2005 | Single |
Lakme | Léo Delibes, Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Charles Gounod, Ambroise Thomas | 2005 | Compil. |
L'Africaine (II) | Giacomo Meyerbeer / Shirley Verrett, Placido Domingo, Ruth Ann Swenson, Justino Diaz, San Francisco Opera Chorus And San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Maurizio Arena, Lotfi Mansouri, Brian Large | 2005 | Single |
Slavonic Dances Op. 46 / Le Cid / Les Patineurs | Antonín Dvořák / Jules Massenet / Giacomo Meyerbeer, The London Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean Martinon | 2004 | Album |
Lieder, Mélodies | Anne Sofie Von Otter, Ludwig van Beethoven, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Louis Spohr, Melvyn Tan | 2001 | Album |
The Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer | Giacomo Meyerbeer | 2001 | Compil. |
L'Africaine (Selection) | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Tony Poncet, Denise Monteil, Andrée Esposito, Félix Giband, Henri Peyrottes, Robert Wagner | 1999 | Album |
Robert Le Diable | Giacomo Meyerbeer - Alain Vanzo, June Anderson, Samuel Ramey, Michèle Lagrange | 1998 | Album |
Stuensee / Les Patineurs | Giacomo Meyerbeer, NDR Chor, Radio-Philharmonie Hannover Des NDR, Michail Jurowski | 1998 | Album |
Liebeslieder Waltzes And Neue Liebeslieder / Three Psalms, Op. 85 / Psalm 91 | Johannes Brahms / Louis Spohr / Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1994 | Album |
Arias | Placido Domingo : Hector Berlioz · Charles Gounod · Jacques Fromental Halévy · Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1992 | Compil. |
Il Crociato In Egitto | Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1991 | Album |
Les Huguenots CD1&2 | Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1990 | Album |
Les Huguenots | Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1990 | Compil. |
Les Huguenots CD3&4 | Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1990 | Album |
Swan Lake Ballet / Giselle / Le Patineurs | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Adolphe C. Adam, Giacomo Meyerbeer - The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy | 1990 | Compil. |
Klarinettenquintette - Dieter Klöcker | Dieter Klöcker, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Louis Spohr, Heinrich Baermann, Ferruccio Busoni | 1990 | Album |
Les Huguenots | Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1990 | Compil. |
Meyerbeer-Les Huguenots | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Beverly Sills, Tony Poncet, Reynald Giovaninetti | 1990 | Album |
Live At Covent Garden | Placido Domingo, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Federico Moreno Torroba, Reveriano Soutullo, Juan Vert, Johann Strauss Jr. | 1989 | Album |
Robert Le Diable | Giacomo Meyerbeer - Samuel Ramey, June Anderson, Alain Vanzo, Thomas Fulton | 1985 | Album |
Gli Amori Di Teolinda (The Loves Of Teolinda) | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wolfgang Gönnenwein, Mariana Nicolesco, Dieter Klöcker | 1984 | Album |
Meyerbeer: Gli Amori di Teolinda | Iulia Várady, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Gerd Albrecht | 1983 | Album |
Richard Wagner A Paris | Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Gaetano Donizetti, Charles Gounod, Franz Liszt, Félicien-César David, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Udo Reinemann, Noël Lee | 1983 | Album |
Historia De La Música Clásica 13 | Gioacchino Rossini / Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1983 | Compil. |
Nabucco / Il Trovatore / La Traviata / Aida / Otello Selecciones | Jean-Baptiste Lully / Jean-Philippe Rameau / Georges Bizet / Léo Delibes / Charles Gounod / Jacques Offenbach / Jules Massenet / Camille Saint-Saëns / Giacomo Meyerbeer ,/ Marc Antoine Charpentier | 1983 | Album |
Gaîté Parisienne | Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1981 | Album |
Gaîté Parisienne; Les Patineurs | Jacques Offenbach, Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1981 | Album |
Gli Ugonotti | Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1981 | Album |
Eugenia Burzio (1879-1922) | Eugenia Burzio, Arrigo Boito, Francesco Cilea, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giovanni Pacini, Romano Romani, Giuseppe Verdi, Amilcare Ponchielli | 1981 | Album |
Dinorah | Giacomo Meyerbeer - Della Jones, Marilyn Hill Smith, Roderick Earle, Ian Caley, The Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Deborah Cook, Christian Du Plessis, Alexander Oliver, Philharmonia Orchestra, James Judd | 1980 | Album |
Il crociato in Egitto | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Yvonne Kenny, Felicity Palmer, Rockwell Blake, Justino Diaz, James Atherton, Gianfranco Masini | 1979 | Album |
Le Prophete | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Henry Lewis, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Marilyn Horne, Renata Scotto, James McCracken, John McCartney | 1977 | Album |
New Productions At The Met: 1976-77 Season | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Francis Poulenc, Jules Massenet, Alban Berg | 1977 | Album |
Les Patineurs - Le Cid | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jules Massenet / National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge | 1976 | Album |
French Opera Arias | Frederica von Stade, John Pritchard / The London Philharmonic Orchestra - Hector Berlioz • Charles Gounod • Jules Massenet • Giacomo Meyerbeer • Jacques Offenbach • Ambroise Thomas | 1976 | Album |
Alleluia | Charles Gounod, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Johann Sebastian Bach, Giuseppe Verdi, Georg Friedrich Händel, Marc Antoine Charpentier, Jeremiah Clarke, Charles-Marie Widor, Franz Schubert, Edvard Grieg, Georges Bizet | 1975 | Compil. |
Le Cid / Les Patineurs | Jules Massenet, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Stanley Black Conducting The Radio Filharmonisch Orkest | 1975 | Album |
Lieder - Melodies | Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1975 | Album |
Massenet "Le Cid" - Ballet Music / Meyerbeer - Lambert "Les Patineurs" Ballet | Robert Irving, The London Symphony Orchestra - Jules Massenet, Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1973 | Album |
L’Africana | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jessye Norman, Veriano Luchetti, Gian Giacomo Guelfi, Riccardo Muti | 1972 | Album |
Franz Völker | Franz Völker, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1972 | Compil. |
Оперен Рецитал - Opera Recital | Gioacchino Rossini, Giacomo Puccini, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Umberto Giordano, Amilcare Ponchielli, Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Giuseppe Verdi - Никола Николов | 1972 | Compil. |
Das ORF-Symphonieorchester 1971 | ORF Symphonieorchester - Franz Liszt / Giacomo Meyerbeer / Gottfried von Einem / Pierre Boulez | 1971 | Album |
Le Prophête | Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1971 | Album |
Les Huguenots | Giacomo Meyerbeer - Joan Sutherland | 1970 | Album |
Les Huguenots | Giacomo Meyerbeer - Joan Sutherland | 1970 | Album |
I Cantanti | Amilcare Ponchielli, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giuseppe Verdi, Umberto Giordano | 1967 | Single |
Operatic Favourites | Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1967 | Compil. |
Il Grand-Opera | Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jacques Offenbach | 1966 | Single |
Gli Ugonotti | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala, Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala | 1963 | Album |
Immortel Caruso | Gaetano Donizetti / Amilcare Ponchielli / Giacomo Meyerbeer / Giacomo Puccini / Jacques Fromental Halévy / Giuseppe Verdi / Georges Bizet / Ruggiero Leoncavallo - Enrico Caruso | 1960 | Compil. |
Carnaval, Les Patineurs | Robert Schumann, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Hugo Rignold | 1960 | Album |
Les Sylphides/Les Patineurs/Dance of the Hours | Frédéric Chopin / Giacomo Meyerbeer / Amilcare Ponchielli : Sir Charles Mackerras - Philharmonia Orchestra | 1960 | Album |
(From "A Midsummer Night's Dream") Wedding March / (From "Tales Of Hoffmann") Intermezzo And Bacarolle / (From "Zar Und Zimmerman") Clog Dance / Torch Dance No. 1 | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy / Jacques Offenbach / Albert Lortzing / Giacomo Meyerbeer / Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie Conducted By Franz Koschat | 1960 | Single |
Les Patineurs Excerpts | Giacomo Meyerbeer arr. Constant Lambert, Jean Martinon, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | 1959 | Single |
Dinorah / Jocelyn / La Bohème | Rita Streich – Giacomo Meyerbeer / Benjamin Godard / Giacomo Puccini | 1959 | Single |
Les Patineurs / Le Cid | Giacomo Meyerbeer - Constant Lambert / Jules Massenet, Jean Martinon · Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | 1958 | Album |
Untitled | Gioacchino Rossini, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Bedřich Smetana, Franz von Suppé | 1958 | Album |
Recital | Nazareno De Angelis, Arrigo Boito, Ludovic Halévy, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Charles Gounod, Carl Maria von Weber | 1957 | Album |
Gaîté Parisienne / Les Patineurs | Jacques Offenbach / Giacomo Meyerbeer - The Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler | 1954 | Album |
L'Africana / La Gioconda / Tosca | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Amilcare Ponchielli, Giacomo Puccini | 1952 | Single |
L'Africaine: Opera In 5 Acts By Giacomo Meyerbeer, Vocal Highlights | Giacomo Meyerbeer - Félia Litvinne, Ernesto Badini, Amelia Talexis, Gaston Dubois, Riccardo Stracciari, Hipólito Lázaro, Ramon Blanchart, Selma Kurz, Giuseppe De Luca | 1952 | Compil. |
Tenor Arias | Rudolf Schock, Orchester Der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Giuseppe Verdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Ambroise Thomas, Jacques Offenbach | 1952 | Album |
L'Africaine / Martha | Georges Thill - Giacomo Meyerbeer / Friedrich von Flotow | 1929 | Album |
L'Africana - O' Paradiso | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Enrico Caruso | 1907 | Album |
Les Patineurs Ballet ("The Skaters") / Checkmate | Giacomo Meyerbeer / Arthur Bliss | Album | |
Famous Marches | Philharmonia Orchestra, Efrem Kurtz, Giuseppe Verdi, Sergei Prokofiev, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Hector Berlioz, John Philip Sousa, Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven, Emmanuel Chabrier, Johann Strauss Sr., Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Album | |
March Rhythms | Sir Edward Elgar, Camille Saint-Saëns, Johan Halvorsen, Giacomo Meyerbeer | Album | |
Marches Célèbres / Marche nuptiale et autres marches célèbres | Hector Berlioz, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Charles Gounod, Emmanuel Chabrier, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Strauss Jr., Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antal Dorati, Frederick Fennell, Paul Paray | Album | |
L'Africana | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Aristodemo Giorgini, Carlo Sabajno | Single | |
Africana / Carmen | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Georges Bizet, Mario Ancona | Single | |
Alleluia | Charles Gounod / Franz Schubert / Marc Antoine Charpentier / Giacomo Meyerbeer / Henry Purcell / Georg Friedrich Händel / Johann Sebastian Bach / Georges Bizet | Album | |
Gaîté Parisienne / Les Patineurs | Jacques Offenbach / Giacomo Meyerbeer - The Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler | Album | |
Les Patineurs | Robert Irving, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Constant Lambert | Album | |
Gouden Melodieën voor Miljoenen | Johann Strauss Sr., Bedřich Smetana, Léo Delibes, Franz von Suppé, Johann Strauss Jr., Johannes Brahms, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Otto Nicolai | Compil. | |
Les Sylphides / Les Patineurs / Ballet Egyptien | Frédéric Chopin / Giacomo Meyerbeer / Alexandre Luigini — Orchestre Des Concerts Lamoureux, Jésus Etcheverry | Album | |
Beruhmte Marsche | Willem Van Otterloo, Das Philharmonische Orchester, Franz Schubert, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Charles Gounod, Hector Berlioz, Edvard Grieg, Richard Wagner, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka | Compil. | |
Vocal Highlights From Le Prophete, La Juive | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jacques Fromental Halévy | Album | |
Africana / Carmen | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Georges Bizet, Mario Ancona | Single | |
Prophete - Prison Scene - Part II | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Ernestine Schumann-Heink | Album | |
Africana. Figlio Del Sol / Ave Maria | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Charles Gounod | Album | |
Maria Callas, Rome 1951 | Maria Callas, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gaspare Spontini, Gioacchino Rossini, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Ambroise Thomas, Giuseppe Verdi | Album | |
The Art Of Caruso - Volume Two | Giacomo Puccini, Amilcare Ponchielli, Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Georges Bizet, Jules Massenet, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Ludovic Halévy, Friedrich von Flotow | Album | |
Säbeltanz • Feuertanz • Fackeltanz Nr.1 B-Dur | Aram Khatchaturian, Manuel De Falla, Giacomo Meyerbeer | Single | |
L'apprenti Sorcier / Coronation March From Le Prophète | Paul Paray, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Dukas, Giacomo Meyerbeer | Single | |
Arien Von Händel Gounod Delibes Meyerbeer | Joan Sutherland, Georg Friedrich Händel, Charles Gounod, Léo Delibes, Giacomo Meyerbeer | Album | |
Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo / Marche Du Prophéte | Pietro Mascagni, Giacomo Meyerbeer | Single | |
Dinorah / Mirella | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Charles Gounod, Maria Galvany | Single | |
Roberto Il Diavolo | Giacomo Meyerbeer - Renata Scotto, Stefania Malagù, Giorgio Merighi, Boris Christoff | Album | |
Romanticism | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Hector Berlioz, Heinrich Marschner, Bedřich Smetana, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Robert Schumann | Album | |
Le Cid (Ballet Music) / Les Patineurs (The Skaters) | Jean Martinon, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Perform Jules Massenet, Giacomo Meyerbeer | Album | |
Lebendige Vergangenheit (Große Bühnenerfolge) | Lauritz Melchior / Richard Wagner • Giuseppe Verdi • Giacomo Meyerbeer • Ruggiero Leoncavallo | Compil. | |
Lamento Di Federico: E La Solita Storia / O Paradiso | Ferruccio Tagliavini, Antal Dorati, Giacomo Meyerbeer | Album | |
Ballet Gala: Le Cid-Les Patineurs, etc | Jules Massenet, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Léo Delibes, Ambroise Thomas, Richard Bonynge, The London Symphony Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra | Compil. | |
The Ballet | Maurice Ravel, Albert Roussel, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Walter Piston, Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Boston Pops Orchestra, Charles Munch, James Pappoutsakis, Arthur Fiedler | Album | |
L'Africana (In Italian) | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Anne Elgar, Eve Queler, Richard Tucker, Antonietta Stella, Matteo Manuguerra | Album | |
Аве Мария - Арии Из Опер / Ave Maria - Arias From The Operas | Johann Sebastian Bach - Charles Gounod, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gioacchino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Léo Delibes, Jules Massenet, Gohar Gasparyan | Compil. | |
Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail-Martern Aller Arten / Robert Der Teufel-Gnadenarie | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Lilli Lehmann | Album | |
Marce Famose Tratte Da Opere E Da Concerti | Hector Berlioz, Ludwig van Beethoven, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Strauss Jr., Richard Wagner, Großes Orchester des Österreichischen Rundfunks Direttore Hans Swarowsky | Album | |
La Favorita / L'Africana | Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Alessandro Bonci | Album | |
L'Africana - O Paradisio | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Enrico Caruso | Album | |
Solo Per Me L'infamia | Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jacques Offenbach, Erna Spoorenberg, Theo Baylé | Single |