Opera

Jewish musical group performs song in Hebrew in historic Australia Day concert in Sydney

It marked the first time Hebrew has been sung at the iconic Opera House Forecourt in any concert setting, and also the first time a Jewish song has been performed at the Australia Day Live concert.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
SHIR, the Australian Jewish Music Festival, outside the Sydney Opera House.
JOHNNY BOMBINO as Emperor Überall.

Viktor Ullmann’s 'Der Kaiser von Atlantis' as a manifesto against tyranny - review

Ullmann completed this significantly historical work in Ghetto Theresienstadt just before he was sent to his death in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

|ByLIRAN GURKIEWICZ
ISRAELI CONDUCTOR Lahav Shani and members of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra receive applause from the audience following their performance as guests at the Konzerthaus Berlin, as part of the ongoing Musikfest Berlin, following their disinvitation from the Flanders Festival Ghent, in Berlin, Germa

Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra performs ‘Aida’ opera - review

Youthful, graceful, and very competent, with a cast of top singers, Maestro Vincenzo Milletari took the audience to ancient Egypt and its unique rituals and customs.

|BySARAH HERSHENSON
The Hanukkah menorah is projected onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House on December 15, 2025 in Sydney, Australia.

Sydney Opera House lit with menorah after deadly antisemitic attack

“Lighting the Opera House is a simple but powerful gesture: a message to the world that we cherish our Jewish community, that we honour their courage, and that we stand with them in solidarity."

|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA

Jerusalem highlights: December 5-11

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

DECEMBER 5, 2025ByHAGAY HACOHEN
YMCA Christmas Fair

After October 7, Purcell’s 'Dido and Aeneas' rings truer than ever

The decision to open the 40th opera season on Tuesday with Dido and Aeneas is a lovely nod to the past while ensuring the opera in Israel has a future.

NOVEMBER 20, 2025ByHAGAY HACOHEN
A SCENE from ‘Dido and Aeneas’

Bach, unplugged with The Revolution Orchestra

The Revolution Orchestra turns toward Bach in a joyful new season blurring the lines between reverence and play.

NOVEMBER 17, 2025ByNERIA BARR
THE REVOLUTION Orchestra’s Roy Oppenheim (bottom) and Zohar Sharon.

A season of reflection: The Israeli Opera at 40

The opera's new season, opening in November, brings together seven productions.

OCTOBER 28, 2025ByNERIA BARR
RICHARD STRAUSS’S ‘Salome,’ directed by Itay Tiran.

Jerusalem highlights: October 24-30

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

OCTOBER 24, 2025ByHAGAY HACOHEN
‘The Cloak’ by Giacomo Puccini

An evening of Puccini opera in Jerusalem

Two operas will be featured in performances at the Jerusalem Theatre.

OCTOBER 19, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
PUCCINI is on the way to Jerusalem.

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.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2025BySARAH HERSHENSON
The Jerusalem Philharmonic Orchestra plays at the 2019 Pianos Festival.

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.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2025ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA
Ben Kaplan, left, and Alex Weiser, seen in Weiser's office at YIVO, are the co-creators of "The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language," a new chamber opera about the monumental effort after the Holocaust to preserve the language and culture of Eastern European Jewry.

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.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2025ByMICHAEL STARR
Israeli singer David D'Or sing during a rally calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at "Hostage Square" in Tel Aviv, June 25, 2024.

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.

AUGUST 5, 2025ByMATHILDA HELLER
The Company perform onstage during a production of Tosca by Giacmo Puccini at London Coliseum on September 28, 2022; illustrative.