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Young opera singer students performing in the 2022 summer opera program in Tel Aviv (Courtesy Noy Dekel)
June 25, 2023, 1:24 pm
In Tel Aviv, indoor and outdoor arias from singers in training
City’s Conservatory of Music hosts three weeks of free and ticketed performances
By Jessica Steinberg
From 'Theodor,' the new original Hebrew opera about Theodor Herzl, premiering May 10, 2023 at The Israeli Opera (Courtesy Israeli Opera)
May 6, 2023, 10:32 am
A tale of two Herzls premieres in Tel Aviv in new opera ‘Theodor’
A Hebrew libretto for the ages asks audiences to consider what pushed the Jewish journalist and activist to found the modern Zionist movement
By Jessica Steinberg
Soloists, musicians, and dancers from the Israeli Opera will perform 'The Magic Flute' with 150 members of the Acre community on January 9, 2023. (courtesy, the Israeli Opera)
January 8, 2023, 8:06 pm
Acre locals join opera pros in ‘The Magic Flute’ production
Residents aged 5 to 75 spent the last six months rehearsing and learning operatic tradition, as part of Israeli Opera community project
By Jessica Steinberg
Singer Carly Simon, right, is joined by her sisters and mother at a party in New York on Thursday, March 23, 1990, to celebrate the release of her new album My Romance. From left are Lucy, Andrea, Joanna and Carly Simon. (AP/Ed Bailey)
October 22, 2022, 7:20 pm
American musician Carly Simon loses both sisters to cancer in consecutive days
Lucy Simon, a composer who received a Tony nomination for work on Broadway hit ‘The Secret Garden,’ dies at 82; Joanna Simon, an opera singer who performed at Carnegie, dies at 86
By AP and ToI Staff
An Israeli audience at 'Sun&Sea,' the Lithuanian opera that was performed at the Israel Festival for five days in September 2022 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
September 20, 2022, 6:05 pm
Jerusalem Theater gets its own beach for Israel Festival opera
Jerusalemites flock to Lithuanian beachside libretto ‘Sun & Sea’ about holidaymakers’ concerns both mundane and deep, as well as the overarching threat of climate change
By Jessica Steinberg
Spanish tenor Placido Domingo to perform in Tel Aviv on September 4, 2022. (Courtesy: Floreno Niccoli)
June 28, 2022, 11:00 pm
Opera legend Placido Domingo to perform in Tel Aviv in September
Spanish tenor will share stage with Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and maestro Eugene Cohen
By Jessica Steinberg
The Corps des ballet Dortmund Ballet brings its version of "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" to the Israeli Opera stage in the 2022/2023 season (Courtesy Leszek Januszew)
May 12, 2022, 2:02 pm
Ode to Theodor Herzl to premiere at Israeli Opera
Original work is one of eight productions being staged at the Tel Aviv opera house in 2022/2023
By Jessica Steinberg
Italian tenor Francesco Meli performing in 'Aida' in 2017; the opera singer will perform in Israel on May 29, 2021 (Courtesy Monika Rittershaus)
May 20, 2021, 2:50 pm
Italian tenor set for Israel gig, after coronavirus ‘silence’
Francesco Meli, who recovered from COVID-19, will perform arias and duets from popular Italian operas in honor of Italy’s Republic Day
By Jessica Steinberg
Conductor Dan Ettinger has returned to Israel after a year at his home in Mannheim, Germany, and is rehearsing 'Die Fledermaus,' opening at the New Israeli Opera on April 30, 2021 (Courtesy Dan Ettinger)
April 29, 2021, 8:42 pm
Israeli Opera roars back with ‘rock star’ conductor Dan Ettinger
After more than a year of COVID-imposed closure, Israeli-born maestro will conduct performances of farcical operetta ‘Die Fledermaus’ from Friday
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli Opera singers performing Hebrew favorites for the opera's newly broadened website (Courtesy Israeli Opera)
October 2, 2020, 9:20 pm
Israeli Opera upgrades website with features for fans at home
Site includes videos of full operas, duets and solos, and the stories behind some of the most famous arias
By Jessica Steinberg
Anthony Russell started studying to perform in Yiddish in 2011. (Max Eicke via JTA)
August 16, 2018, 8:46 am
A former opera singer fuses African-American and Yiddish music
In new album, Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell teams up with klezmer band to stretch the boundaries of Jewish music
By Josefin Dolsten
This September 20, 2017 photo provided by the Metropolitan Opera shows Golda Schultz as Pamina in a production of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. (Richard Termine/Metropolitan Opera via AP)
October 10, 2017, 8:13 pm
Golda Schultz gets high-profile Met debut
South African soprano named for late Israeli PM stars in production of ‘The Magic Flute’ to be broadcast worldwide
By mike silverman
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (YouTube screenshot)
March 23, 2017, 6:08 am
Jewish countertenor takes Metropolitan Opera award
23-year-old Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen one of six winners among the nine finalists who performed at Lincoln Center
By JTA
Mezzo soprano Hagar Sharvit with Ammiel Bushakevitz at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/Hagar Sharvit)
February 25, 2015, 12:02 pm
Israeli opera singer wins prestigious Berlin contest
Hagar Sharvit wows judges with her vocal skills; pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz also scores a prize
By Stuart Winer
Israeli soprano Chen Reis sang at the Vatican's Christmas mass at the behest of Pope Francis in December 2014. (Paul Marc Mitchell)
February 2, 2015, 3:54 am
How a Jewish Israeli soprano found holiness in front of the Pope
After receiving a call from the Vatican, Chen Reiss cleared her jam-packed schedule to sing to an audience of 700 million
By Jenni Frazer
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