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| | The New Yorker: The Critics: Musical Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Nonetheless, Mahler believed in “La Juive,” and he lavished special attention on the finale of Act III, in which Brogni, a cardinal in fifteenth-century Switzerland, condemns the heretical love of Léopold, a Catholic prince, and Rachel, the “Jewess” of the title. |
 | | “La Juive” is now playing at the Metropolitan Opera for the first time in decades, in a production borrowed, fittingly enough, from the Vienna State Opera. |
 | | One of the great inspirations of “La Juive” is the ironic use of a church organ and the Te Deum as counterpoint to the action. |
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