Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Met Opera adapts Michael Chabon’s Jewish novel ‘Kavalier & Clay’ for the stage

The “epic of an opera” — which tells the story of two Jewish cousins who create a Nazi-fighting superhero — opens Sunday, Sept. 21. Jewish author Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, “The ...
The Forward

How an Orthodox Jewish refugee became a theater and opera legend

The Australian opera and theater director Elijah Moshinsky, who died on Jan. 14 of COVID-19 complications at age 75, was celebrated for his onstage collaborations with superstar singers from Luciano ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jewish Opera Established in Berlin with No Aryans Permitted in Audiences

Permission to establish a German Opera and Theater where the actors, singers, musicians and theatrical staff will be exclusively Jewish was granted yesterday by the government under the condition that ...
The Jewish Exponent

Jewish Composer to Debut Opera at Fringe Festival

When the Theresienstadt Ghetto was established in 1941, it was a way station for Jews to be sent to extermination camps. By 1944, however, the ghetto was home to thousands of Jewish artists and ...
Jewish Press

Filmed Israeli Opera ‘Theodor’ Premieres in New York

Oded Reich and Anat Czarny accompanied by Yonatan Cnaan on piano at NY Film debut of "Theodor: The Unknown Story of Herzl." This past Monday evening, the Israeli Opera celebrated the US film premiere ...
The Jewish Exponent

At YIVO, an Unfinished Yiddish Dictionary Gets the Last Word — as Opera

In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...