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Giacomo Meyerbeer was a German opera composer of Jewish birth, born on September 5, 1791, in Tasdorf, Mark Brandenburg. He passed away on May 2, 1864, in Paris. Described as perhaps the most successful stage composer of the nineteenth century, Meyerbeer came from a wealthy family; his father was a financier, and his mother had an elite background. His siblings included the astronomer Wilhelm Beer and the poet Michael Beer. He adopted the surname Meyerbeer after the death of his grandfather, Liebmann Meyer Wulff, in 1811, and took the first name Giacomo during his studies in Italy around 1817. Meyerbeer achieved his first major success at the Paris Opéra in 1831 with "Robert le diable" ('Robert the Devil'). This was followed by "Les Huguenots," "Le Prophète," and finally "L’Africaine," all three featuring texts by a famous librettist.

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