Opera
To play or not to play: A Swiss theater director comes to Israel to test the murky Wagnerian waters
Milo Rau is clearly determined to dive into the multi-layered, dense underbelly of various situations to divine the whys and wherefores and, hopefully, uncover the real state of play.
John Malkovich to return to Israel with satirical theatrical-musical show
Jerusalem Theatre hosts Massenet’s Cinderella in a one-time opera event
Pastoral Hotel: A symphony of culture, comfort - review
An evening of Puccini opera in Jerusalem
Two operas will be featured in performances at the Jerusalem Theatre.
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra to open 89th season in Tel Aviv
The country needed music, and the IPO management decided that live music was vital in raising soldiers and civilians' morale. “And this belief remains to this day,” they told the Post.
At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word - as opera
"The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language," an original chamber opera, premieres at YIVO, dramatizing the post-Holocaust effort to preserve Yiddish through language.
Israeli singer D’or splashed with red paint at Warsaw performance
Anti-Israel group Bas Collective said that two people were arrested and that it was attempting to hold solidarity rallies for the activists.
UK's Royal Opera cancels planned run of Tosca in Israel after internal pressure
The Israeli Opera website has dropped reference to the Royal Opera House.
Patron behind Hamburg's new opera house has resisted scrutiny of family history with Nazis
The patron behind Hamburg’s new opera house has resisted scrutiny of his family’s Nazi collaboration
OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome
If adopted by the 400 million weekly active users of ChatGPT, OpenAI's browser could put pressure on a key component of rival Google's ad-money spigot.
'Turandot' returns to Israel's Opera after Operation Rising Lion
The opera was deep in rehearsals when the Israel-Iran war broke out.
The Israeli Opera unveils Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos
“This is an opera about everything,” director Ido Ricklin says. "“It’s about love and loneliness, idealism and self-interest – and it’s at the same time about art and life itself."
Vienna remembers the Holocaust with music
Israeli-led operas at Vienna’s Volksoper explore Holocaust memory, blending Ullmann’s defiance with Mozart’s Requiem in a stirring musical dialogue.
