Levasseur, the Marcel of _Les Huguenots_ and the Bertram of _Robert_, played the part of Zacharie.
_Le Prophete_ was enormously successful in spite of the then powerful censer-bearers of the Italian school.

We now see its defects rather than its merits.

Meyerbeer is criticised for not putting into practice theories he did not know and no account is taken of his fearlessness, which was great for that period.

No one else could have drawn the cathedral scene with such breadth of stroke and extraordinary brilliancy.

The paraphrase of _Domine salvum fac regem_ reveals great ingenuity.