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David Faiman presents here an outline of Meyerbeer’s life: his precocious childhood in Prussia, his rise to fame in Italy, his reluctant achievement of superstar status in Paris, the jealousy this engendered among some of his less successful colleagues, and the way one of the above-mentioned availed himself of the latent anti-Semitism of nineteenth-century audiences to remove Meyerbeer’s works from our stages and airbrush his very name from our awareness. Thankfully Meyerbeer is now enjoying a deserved revival. 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