La Juive
After the 1919 revival with Caruso, the Metropolitan Opera programmed "La Juive" fairly regularly until 1936, when it was dropped from the repertory, not to be heard at the Met again for 67 years. The work fell out of favor in Europe around the same time and has rarely been performed since. American tenor Richard Tucker was a champion of "La Juive" and lobbied hard for a Met revival with himself as Eléazar. He first sang the role in concert performances in London in 1964. In 1973, he appeared in the opera twice with the New Orleans Opera Association and gave two heavily cut concert performances of the opera, again in London. Tucker also persuaded RCA Red Seal to record the complete opera, though eventually, RCA would consent only to finance a single album of highlights. Tucker finally convinced Met general manager Schuyler Chapin to mount a new production of "La Juive", to be performed during the 1975-76 season, but tragically, Tucker died suddenly in January 1975 and the Met revival of "La Juive" died along with him. The opera was finally revived at the Metropolitan in 2003 with tenor Neil Shicoff as Eléazar. Other modern revivals have been staged at the Vienna State Opera (1999), La Fenice in Venice (2005), the Paris Opera (2007), the Zurich Opera House (2007), the Staatstheater Stuttgart (2008), De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam (2009), the Tel Aviv (Israel) Opera and the Mikhailovsky Theatre at Saint Petersburg (both 2010) and the Göteborg Opera (2014). The Bavarian State Opera presented a new production by Calixto Bieito with Roberto Alagna and Aleksandra Kurzak in 2016. A new production was mounted in Hanover in 2019.