Theatre· Chemnitz
La Juive
*La Juive* is a grand opera by Fromental Halévy (libretto by Eugène Scribe), first performed in Paris in 1835, set in 15th-century Constance. It tells the tragic story of the Jewish moneylender Eléazar and his daughter Rachel, who is executed after being falsely accused of poisoning, amid themes of religious intolerance—complicated by the revelation that Rachel is actually the daughter of Cardinal