Excerpts from a live performance of Meyerbeer’s grand opera, once enormously popular.
Meyerbeer’s Glorious Le prophète

Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864), German opera composer, engraving from a Pierre Petit'sphotograph. Cropped print. (Photo: Au Ménestrel, Paris, 1865.Uploaded, stiched and restored by JLPC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

