About the production
- Run time: 3hrs 00min, 2 intermissions
- Sung in: FRENCH
- Subtitles: English, French and other languages
- Opera house: Vienna State Opera
Halévy’s rarely performed masterpiece exemplifies all that is best of French 19th-century grands operas - it offers the audience spectacle, grandeur and plenty of attractive melodies.
Roberto Alagna sings Eléazar, a Jewish goldsmith burdened by a terrible secret, Sonya Yoncheva is his beloved daughter Rachel, in love with a man who turns out not to be Samuel, a simple workman in her father’s shop, but Prince Léopold (Cyrille Dubois). Rachel is sent to her gruesome death by Cardinal de Brogni (Günther Groissböck), who discovers Eléazar’s secret too late.
Ticket information
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Vienna State Opera
Address:
Opernring 2, 1010 Vienna View in Google Maps
How to get there:
Subway: U1, U2, U4 to Karlsplatz
Trams: 1, 2, D, 62, 71 to Opernring
After the performance taxis will drive up to the main entrance
Conductor Bertrand de Billy
Eléazar Roberto Alagna
Rachel Sonya Yoncheva
Princess Eudoxie Nina Minasyan
Cardinal Brogni Günther Groissböck
Léopold Cyrille Dubois
