Fromental Halévy

male, deceased (1862)
Romantic composer, music educator, Member of the Académie des beaux-arts, Jewish person, composer, French…LaJuive
Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy (usually known as Fromental Halévy) was a French composer. He is known today largely for his opera "La Juiv...
Adolphe Nourrit

Adolphe Nourrit

male, deceased (1839)
Les Huguenot, LaJuive, montpellier, rossini, william tell, From Montpellier…La muette de Portici
Adolphe Nourrit was a French tenor. A native of Montpellier, Nourrit was one of the most respected opera singers in the 1820s and 1830s. He was the...
Elisabeth Rethberg

Elisabeth Rethberg

female, deceased (1976)
Soprano, German, verdi, metropolitan opera, johann strauss, covent garden…LaJuive
The German soprano Elisabeth Rethberg (22 September 1894 - 6 June 1976) was a soprano active from the early 1920s to the 1940s. Some hailed her as...
Hasmik Papian

Hasmik Papian

female, 48 years old
Ernani, Berlin State Opera, Vienna State Opera, Don Carlo, Elvira, La rondine…LaJuive, La Forza del Destino, la boheme, la scala, la traviata
Hasmik Papian is an Armenian soprano. She graduated from High Academy in Yerevan first as a violinist, then as a singer. After her debut at the...
Rosa Raisa

Rosa Raisa

female, deceased (1963)
diva, Divas, Italian, la scala, Soprano, boito…LaJuive
Rosa Raisa (30 May, 1893 - 28 September, 1963) was a Polish-born, Italian-trained, Russian-Jewish dramatic soprano. She was one of the most...

Marianne Brandt

female, deceased (1921)
German, graz, metropolitan opera, metropolitan opera house, Opera Singer, Wagnerites…LaJuive
Marianne Brandt, family name "Marie Bischof" (1842-1921) was a German operatic singer. She was born in Vienna and was educated at the Conservatory...
Marisa Galvany

Marisa Galvany

female
la traviata, Soprano, metropolitan opera, turandot, aida, attila…LaJuive
Marisa Galvany is an American soprano of note. A pupil of Armen Boyajian (also the pedagogue of basses Paul Plishka and Samuel Ramey), she made her...

Marie-Cornélie Falcon

female, deceased (1897)
Les Huguenot, operatic, opera, Mezzo-soprano, Opera Singer, French…LaJuive
Marie-Cornélie Falcon was a French operatic singer. She had a dramatic soprano voice which reached into the mezzo-soprano range and gave her name t...
Rita Shane

Rita Shane

female
la traviata, Die Zauberflöte, New Orleans Opera, Les contes d'Hoffmann, LaJuive, Dialogues des Carmélites…la boheme
Rita Shane is an internationally-known coloratura soprano. She studied at Barnard College and under Beverly Peck Johnson, and made her operatic...

Osip Mikhailovich Lerner

male
Jewish film and theatre, yiddish, Russian, Jewish person, odessa, Imperial Russia…LaJuive
Osip Mikhailovich Lerner was a 19th century Russian Jewish intellectual and lawyer. Originally a "maskil"-a propagator of the "Haskala", or "Jewish...