For 10 points, name this composer of Robert the Devil, L'Africaine, and Les Huguenots.
The laziness of Carolina Bassi Manna hurt one of this composer's works, after that diva gained exclusive rights to perform in the work but rarely chose to do so. He composed one of the last operas for a castrato lead, a piece involving the "giovinetto Cavalier" motif entitled. Il crociato in Egitto, while his first work at La Scala was based on a Guilbert de Pixérécourt play and depicted such characters as Michele Gaumotte in Margeret of Anjou. His working relationship with Gaetano Rossi began on the "rescue opera" Romilda e Costanza, and this man went on to compose notable operas that involve an infernally parented Norman, the voyages of Vasco da Gama, and a persecuted religious group. For 10 points, name this composer of Robert the Devil, L'Africaine, and Les Huguenots.
The laziness of Carolina Bassi Manna hurt one of this composer's works, after that diva gained exclusive rights to perform in the work but rarely chose to do so.
Giacomo {Meyerbeer} or Jakob Liebmann {Meyer} or Giacomo {Beer}