In Emmelie Prophète’s “Cécé,” a young woman is determined to survive the slums — first by doing sex work, then by posting her gruesome reality for the world to see. By Susie Boyt Susie Boyt is the ...

But for 2024, Botstein turned to a very famous title—Le Prophète by Giacomo Meyerbeer, a composer whose works for decades were among opera’s most performed but whose presence on world stages since the ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — With magnificent sets, a sobering world, and an orchestra and chorus that were on-form and then some, Bard College’s SummerScape created a “Le Prophète” that was compelling ...

Meyerbeer, one of the 19th century’s most popular composers, is out of fashion today. But his work is receiving a rare revival at Bard College. By Oussama Zahr Reporting from Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For 19th-century audiences, Giacomo Meyerbeer was synonymous with grand opera. The German composer combined the ...

Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. This season’s opera rarity at Bard SummerScape is Giacomo Meyerbeer’s “Le Prophète” (1849) in its first new American staging in nearly five decades (the Metropolitan Opera ...

The narrator of Emmelie Prophète’s “Cécé” (Archipelago, 224 pages, $18) is Célia Jérôme, a destitute young woman in Haiti’s gang-ridden Cité of Divine Power, a “lost corner of a lost country, a boil ...