La Juive

La Juive is an opera in five acts with music by Jacques Fromenthal Halévy, a libretto by Eugène Scribe, and choreography by Filippo Taglioni (see eighteenth-century volume for Taglioni). It had its world premiere at the Opéra on 23 February 1835 in a production promoted by Duponchel that cost 150,000 francs, and the sets and costumes alone were enough to impress the public. The work enjoyed its 100th performance as early as 5 June 1840, and it was billed on more than 350 dates by the time that…