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La Juive

opera in three acts
music by Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy

3 hours 50 minutes
two intervals
frperformed in French (the performance will have Russian supertitles)
16+for viewers over 16 years old
50 minutes Interval 30 minutes 1 hour 20 minutes Interval 20 minutes 50 minutes
 La Juive
Artists
Rachel — Tatiana Ryaguzova
De Brogni — Alexander Bezrukov    debut
Léopold — Sergey Kuzmin
Eudoxie — Natalia Mironova
Ruggiero — Alexander Kuznetsov

Conductor — Dmitry Korchak
Credits
Libretto by Eugène Scribe

Musical Director of the production: Peter Feranec
Stage Director: Arnaud Bernard
Stage Design: Herbert Murauer
Costume Designer: Eva-Mareike Uhlig
Lighting Design: Reinhard Traub
Choreographer: Maria Bolshakova
Musical Director of the revival: Dmitri Korchak
Director of the revival: Yulia Prokhorova
Assistants to the Director of the revival: Elena Piskunova, Vyacheslav Kalyuzhny
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Mikhailovsky Chorus: Vladimir Stolpovskikh
Chorus Masters: Alexey Dmitriev, Sergey Tsyplenkov
Consultant in the French language: Daria Mitrofanova
Director of the Extras: Irina Kuzmina
Surtitles: Margarita Kunitsyna-Tankevich
  • Best Opera Production
  • Best Conductor (Peter Feranec, Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Mikhailovsky Theatre)
  • Best Stage Director (Arnaud Bernard)
  • Best Stage Designer in Music Theatre (Herbert Murauer)
  • Best Female Opera Role (Natalia Mironova for the role of Eudoxie)
  • Best Male Opera Role (Neil Shicoff for the role of Eléazar)

Premiere of the production: 19 February 2010
Back on Stage: 3 May 2018

The Mikhailovsky Theatre turns to the opera that became a cornerstone of the French opera repertoire. La Juive by Jacques François Fromental Halévy is a masterpiece of grand style of the early 19th century. In the productions of the grand style visual effects prevailed over the musical and dramatic logic, however, very soon the trend was conceived as a most convincing implementation of the synthetic nature of musical theatre. The opera combines the elements of lyricism, dramatism and sonority. La Juive is notable for its brilliant vocal parts and complex ensembles.

The production at the Mikhailovsky Theatre by the French stage director Arnaud Bernard and stage designer Herbert Murauer adapts the arresting storyline to modern times.

The unique personality means nothing for the impersonal wheels of state and the opposition is treated taking into account the experience of several generations, who really know the nature of totalitarianism. The opera is set in the city of Constance in 1414 during the time of persecution of Jews. Through the story of an impossible love between a Christian man and a Jewish woman, the work may be seen as a plea for religious tolerance.

The events take place in 1930s in a European country

Act I
A town square. The townsfolk are praying. The mayor of the town, Ruggiero, followed by his retinue, appears to inform the people of the victory in the war. A public holiday is announced to celebrate the victory. All the work is to be suspended; holy services are to be held in churches.
The Jew Eléazar, a goldsmith, goes on working. On Ruggiero’s order, the guards bring Eléazar and his daughter Rachel to the mayor. Ruggiero accuses Eléazar of defying the Christian law. The Jew insists that his beliefs do not ban his work and he is not going to follow any traditions of the Christians, who had doomed his family to death. Ruggiero threatens him. Cardinal de Brogni appears. Eléazar rushes to him, praying for forgiveness. Brogni recognizes Eléazar from the days when both men lived in Rome: Brogni was then the city magistrate, who had banished the Jew from Rome. Now Brogni, full of remorse, counsels forgiveness and lets Rachel and Eléazar go, telling Ruggiero that their example may inspire the Jews to turn to the Christian god.
Léopold, who is secretly in love with Rachel, has been able to gain entry to Eléazar’s house, disguised as Samuel, a young Jewish painter. Rachel invites him to join her and her father for a Passover Seder the next evening. As the townsfolk return, the lovers hide.
Ruggiero, who has noticed Jews in the crowd of Christians, orders to arrest the Jews. Léopold protects Rachel, and she is spared. Eléazar manages to disappear.

Act II
In Eléazar’s home, „Samuel“ has joined others in celebrating Passover. Rachel realizes that „Samuel“ is not a Jew: he does not know their traditions. Eudoxie, Léopold’s fiancée, comes to Eléazar: she wishes to buy a chain for Léopold. Eudoxie asks Eléazar to deliver the chain to her place. Rachel insists that Léopold should tell the truth about himself. Léopold promises to tell everything at night. Eléazar suspects an affair between the guest and his daughter and, smelling a rat, dismisses Léopold.
At night, Léopold returns to Rachel. He confesses that he is a Christian. Rachel is horror struck: according to the law, an affair between a Jew and a Christian is pun-ished by death sentence. Léopold begs her to elope with him. She is on the point of of leaving with him when Eléazar catches them. Léopold admits to Eléazar that he is a Christian. Eléazar is furious; he rushes to Léopold, meaning to kill him. Rachel intervenes, insisting that she is as much to blame as her lover. Moved by Rachel’s pleas, Eléazar consents to her marriage, in case Léopold changes his faith. Léopold has to admit all the truth: he is also Eudoxie’s fiancé. Eléazar calls on God to curse Léopold.
Eléazar followed by his daughter brings the chain commissioned by Eudoxie. Léopold is startled to see them. When Eudoxie presents the chain to Léopold, Rachel leaps forward, tears the chain from Eudoxie, and declares Léopold unworthy to receive such a precious gift. He has had relations with a Jewish girl, a crime for which they both must die. She confesses that Jewish girl is her. Eudoxie is desperate. Léopold does not offer excuses. Since Léopold will not defend himself, Cardinal de Brogni supposes the allegation to be true, and orders to arrest Eléazar, Rachel and Léopold.

Act III
Eudoxie visits Rachel in her prison cell and begs her to deny Léopold’s guilt and to save him. Bringing down her pride, Rachel agrees to save the beloved man. Eudoxie withdraws. Cardinal de Brogni has Eléazar brought before him in an attempt to save them from the sentence, if the Jews renounce Judaism. Eléazar refuses: he is humili-ated with Cardinal’s offer, insulted by Léopold’s behaviour, and is set on revenge.
Eléazar has been keeping a secret for many years: Rachel, who had been saved by him, is the daughter of de Brogni. Cardinal knows that the girl had been saved by a Jew. Brogni supposes that Eléazar knows some details and pleads with him to reveal her whereabouts, but Eléazar spurns him. „Die, if you want to“, cries Cardinal de Brogni before leaving. Eléazar and Rachel are ready to die. Eléazar is surprised with the absence of Léopold. Ruggiero tells Eléazar that only two people were condemned to die; Léopold has been sent into exile. Ruggiero explains that Rachel’s testimony saved Léopold.
De Brogni and ordinaries appear. Brogni asks Eléazar once again what became of his daughter. Eléazar keeps silence; he wants vengeance. He tells Rachel that he could save her at the expense of his life. Rachel is steadfast. As Rachel is about to be executed, Eléazar reveals to Brogni that she is his long lost daughter and follows her to his death.
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