Opera
A season of reflection: The Israeli Opera at 40
The opera's new season, opening in November, brings together seven productions.
Jerusalem highlights: October 24-30
An evening of Puccini opera in Jerusalem
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra to open 89th season in Tel Aviv
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.
Facing the Red Sea: ‘La Bohème’ opera in Tel Aviv gives the gift of imagination - review
Performed against a massive window, that, at times, alternately presents the audience with the Eiffel Tower or the City of Lights at night.
Opera brings Eichmann’s trial to the stage in dramatic world premiere
The opera dramatizes the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the central architects of the Holocaust.
Puccini’s ‘La Bohème beckons audiences to the Israeli Opera
Adapted from the 1851 novel Scenes of Bohemian Life by Henri Murger, Puccini’s version soared to hold a unique place in the hearts of audiences ever since it was first performed in 1896.
