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Die Maccabäer
''Die Maccabäer'' (''German, The Maccabees'') (sometimes spelt 'Die Makkabäer') is an opera in three acts by Anton Rubinstein to a libretto by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal. The opera is based on a play by Otto Ludwig, which is itself based loosely on the biblical story of the Maccabees. Written in 1872-74, it was first performed on 17 April 1875 at the Hofoper, Berlin. Censorship problems prevented its performance in Russia until January 1877 (in St.Petersburg).
==Background==
''Die Maccabäer'' was Rubinstein's most successful opera, holding the German and Russian stages throughout his lifetime. The Berlin reviews of its premiere compared its success to that of Meyerbeer's ''L'Africaine'', and after its Vienna premiere in 1878, the critic Eduard Hanslick believed it showed an alternative model for operatic development to the works of Richard Wagner. Rarely performed since the 19th century, there was a production in Hebrew in Jerusalem in 1925.〔Taruskin, ''Maccabäer, Die''〕
The rumour that the opera was to be premiered in Russia in the 1876/7 season aggravated the breach between the composer and Peter Tchaikovsky, who feared that it would displace his own opera ''Vakula the Smith'' (which however was performed there in December 1876). Tchaikovsky wrote to his brother Modest Tchaikovsky:
()Tell Anton Rubinstein "My brother has instructed me to tell you that you are a son of a bitch, and you can go and stuff your mother". No one has wounded my self-esteem as much as this Peterhof resident. And now he comes creeping with his mangy operas() If it weren't for the penal code, I would go to Peterhof and happily burn his wretched villa to the ground()〔Taylor (2007), p. 165. Translation corrected, see ''ibid.'', p. 301 n. 20〕 .
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