Religious Themes in French Grand Opera.

The Nexus of Faith, Power, Love and Death in the Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable, Les Huguenots, Le Prophete, Struensee, L'Etoile du Nord, Le Pardon de Ploermel, L'Africaine. / Old and New Covenants: Historical and Theological Contexts in Scribe's and Halevy's "La Juive": The Historical Presuppositions and Perspectives, The Contemporary Crisis - Finding the True Way: Orthodoxy or Freedom? Liberty in Martyrdom: John Hus and the Early Reformers. Heresy and its Suppression in the Middle Ages. Jewish-Christian Questions in the Middle Ages. Miscegenarion, the Right of Cho8ice and Innate Human Dignity. Later protestantism and the Jewish Question. Faith, Religion, Dissent and Retribution in "La Juive". Ceremony and Ritual. The Search for Truth and Freedom. / Theological Aspects of Scribe's and Meyerbeer's "Le Prophete": The religious subtext and submerged Biblical models. The mother of the prophet (Mary, Daughter of Zion, Seat of Wisdom, Mother of the Messiah, patroness and arc of salvation). The beloved of the prophet (Mary Magdalene, fallen, suffering, but faithful and loved: Judith, the sign and agent of salvation). Sacramental models. Liberation.