Yasuko Hayashi (Rachel), Michèle Le Bris (Eudoxie), Juan Sabate (Léopold), David Gwynne (Brogni) – live concert performance, London, cond. Anton Guadagno – Opera d'Oro CD: OPD-1333. 1974 (Highlights) – Richard Tucker (Eléazar), Martina Arroyo (Rachel), Anna Moffo (Eudoxie), Juan Sabate (Léopold), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Brogni) – Ambrosian Opera Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra, cond. Antonio de Almeida – RCA Red Seal LP: ARL1-0447 CD: 886446206530 1989 – José Carreras (Eléazar), Júlia Várady (Rachel), June Anderson (Eudoxie), Dalmacio Gonzalez (Léopold), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Brogni) – Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, cond. Antonio de Almeida – Philips CD: 420 190–2. 2003 – Neil Shicoff (Eléazar), Soile Isokoski (Rachel), Regina Schörg (Eudoxie), Zoran Todorovic (Léopold), Alastair Miles (Brogni) – Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Cond. Simone Young – RCA Red Seal CD: 74321795962 2003 – Neil Shicoff (Eléazar), Krassimira Stoyanova (Rachel), Simina Ivan (Eudoxie), Jianyi Zhang (Léopold), Walter Fink (Cardinal Brogni) – Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, cond. Vjekoslav Šutej – Deutsche Grammophon DVD: 00440 073 4001 The opera's best known aria, "Rachel! Quand du seigneur", has been recorded by numerous renowned tenors, including Enrico Caruso, Giovanni Martinelli, Beniamino Gigli, Placido Domingo, Jonas Kaufmann and Léon Escalaïs. Appropriations Rachel, the Jewish prostitute in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, is nicknamed by the narrator "Rachel quand du Seigneur". As Halévy's Rachel is both Jewish and Christian, so Proust's Rachel is both sexual commodity and, in the eyes of her lover Robert de Saint-Loup, an idolised lady of great price. References Notes Sources Conway, David, Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to Richard Wagner, Cambridge, 2011. Leich-Galland, Karl, Fromental Halévy: La juive – Dossier de la presse Parisienne, Saarbrücken, 1987. Macdonald, Hugh, "La juive", The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie, Vol. Two. London: 1992 External links La Juive French libretto (Oeuvres complètes de Scribe, vol. 2, Paris, 1841) at Google Books La Juive French libretto (Paris, 1935) at Gallica Operas set in the 15th century Works set in the 1410s 1835 operas Operas by Fromental Halévy Libretti by Eugène Scribe French-language operas Grand operas Operas Operas set in Switzerland Opera world premieres at the Paris Opera Works about antisemitism Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor