 Meyerbeer had no pupils and no direct ' school ' . Yet as his works spanned the golden age of grand opera , clear traces of his influence can be found in the grand operas of Fromental Halévy , Gaetano <unk> , Giuseppe Verdi and others . After 1850 , <unk> notes a continuing tradition of operas at Paris where ' principals appear with chorus at the end of an act and where private intrigue <unk> a well @-@ articulated public dimension in the plot ' and cites amongst others Charles Gounod 's La <unk> <unk> ( 1854 ) , Ambroise Thomas 's Hamlet and operas by Jules <unk> , amongst them Le <unk> de <unk> ( 1877 ) and Le <unk> ( 1885 ) . The line of succession was however virtually washed away in the tide of Wagner in Paris after 1890 ( see below ) . The influence of Meyerbeer has also been detected in the operas of <unk> <unk> and other Czech composers , and in the operas of Russian composers including <unk> @-@ <unk> and the young <unk> , who thought Les Huguenots ' one of the greatest works in the repertoire ' . 
