{"id":46730,"date":"2019-10-02T15:34:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T13:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/jacques-offenbach-et-ses-proches-de-la-synagogue-a-lopera\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:38:55","slug":"jacques-offenbach-et-ses-proches-de-la-synagogue-a-lopera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/en\/jacques-offenbach-et-ses-proches-de-la-synagogue-a-lopera\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacques Offenbach and friends – From the Synagogue to the Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Few music lovers know that Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), named \u00ab the Mozart of Champs Elys\u00e9es \u00bb by Rossini, took parts of his musical inspiration from the synagogal chants that he learned in his childhood, from his father Isaac Offenbach, musician, composer and cantor in Cologne\u2019s synagogue, in Germany.
Since his arrival in Paris in 1833, and throughout his career, Jacques Offenbach would work with other music composers of Jewish origin who, like him, could move with incredible ease from the synagogue to the opera stage, from light music to synagogal chants, abolishing thus borders between genres, in the splendour of 19th century\u2019s Paris.<\/p>\n

Published on the occasion of the bicentenary of Jacques Offenbach\u2019s birth, this CD allows us to discover unreleased Hebrew works by Isaac and Jacques Offenbach, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jules Erlanger, Emile Jonas, and Fromental Hal\u00e9vy<\/strong>, creator of the psalm 130 Mimaamakim<\/em> [De profundis<\/em>] ordered by Louis XVIII in 1820 at the Consistoire de la Seine, to commemorate the death of the Duke of Berry.<\/p>\n

A wonderful recording, which comes with a 32 pages booklet, performed by the vocal ensemble La Truite Lyrique and the Polyphonies H\u00e9bra\u00efques de Strasbourg conducted by Hector Sabo.<\/p>\n

This CD was produced thanks to the support of the Fondation du Juda\u00efsme Fran\u00e7ais<\/a>, the Fondation pour la M\u00e9moire de la Shoah<\/a>, the Foundations Henriette Halphen<\/a> and Ir\u00e8ne et Jacques Darmon, under the aegis of the FJF, and the Alliance Isra\u00e9lite Universelle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Purchase the CD Jacques Offenbach and friends – From the synagogue to the opera<\/strong> – online on the EIJM\u2019s shop<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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