Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 – 1864), Grand Opera composer

1^st image: Soirée; 2^nd: by Desmaisons (1875);

With about 75,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Jacob Liebmann Beer) is no longer the immensely popular opera composer he was in in Italy and France between the 1820s and 1860s (as can be derived from the extremely lengthy French wikipedia article). His popularity waned after his death, and the fall of the Second Empire in 1870. By the time you have completed his French wikipedia article, I may have a profile completed about his importance and presence at the vendredi-soirées.

Awaiting the completion, you may also find time to see his opera Le Prophète in July in Aix-en-Provence, and at the Champs-Elysees Theatre in Paris in March 2026.