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

Madame Butterfly’s America of the imagination at the Israeli Opera - review

Polish director Mariusz Trelinski seems to have included sharper pins than usual in the opera, which makes the link between collecting butterflies, and how men and women can cause one another pain.

DECEMBER 11, 2022ByHAGAY HACOHEN
‘MADAME BUTTERFLY’

Climate protesters hurl paint at Milan's La Scala opera house

Activists have staged high-profile protests across Europe in recent months, sometimes targeting museums and famous art.

DECEMBER 7, 2022ByREUTERS
La Scala opera house re-opens to the public after being closed due to the coronavirus disease pandemic, in Milan, Italy, May 10, 2021.

Trelinski’s Madam Butterfly returns to Israel

When Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai presented Madame Butterfly to the public gathered at Hayarkon Park two years ago, he pointed to the painful historic roots from which the opera blossoms.

NOVEMBER 28, 2022ByHAGAY HACOHEN
‘MADAME BUTTERFLY’ under the direction of Mariusz Trelinski.

Jerusalem Highlights November 25-December 1

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

NOVEMBER 26, 2022ByHAGAY HACOHEN
‘UNTITLED’ FROM the series ‘Bandaged’ by Netta Lieber Sheffer at the ‘Darkness, So and So’ exhibit.

Hoffman examined: A retelling of the Offenbach masterpiece - review

Set to music by Jacques Offenbach, the opera is loosely based on stories penned by E.T.A Hoffman with one major difference: Offenbach placed Hoffman as the protagonist.

NOVEMBER 12, 2022ByHAGAY HACOHEN
HILA FAHIMA as Olympia in ‘The Tales of Hoffman.’

Tel Aviv showed a free performance of Bizet's iconic opera "Carmen"

Tel Aviv's Park Hayarkon showed a free performance of Bizet's iconic opera "Carmen".

AUGUST 21, 2022ByHAGAY HACOHEN
FLAMENCO DANCERS during Thursday night’s performance of ‘Carmen’ at Park Hayarkon

Holocaust resistance fighter and writer Zofia Posmysz dies at 98

Posmysz, who was born to a Roman Catholic family in Poland, was imprisoned in concentration camps in 1942 for passing out anti-Nazi leaflets.

AUGUST 17, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Zofia Posmysz, Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner number 7566; Zofia Posmysz during the 69th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Grapevine August 14, 2022: The Anglo angle

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

AUGUST 13, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
LIKUD LEADER Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, at the Likud primary last week.

Israeli Opera to put on 'Carmen in the Park' in free show at Yehoshua Gardens

The performance will take place at Yehoshua Gardens on August 18 at 8:30 p.m. This year’s show continues a tradition of outdoor operas in Tel Aviv dating back over 20 years.

JULY 29, 2022ByALDEN TABAC
A dress rehearsal for the performance of Nabucco, an opera by Giuseppe Verdi, at the Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv, on August 8, 2018.

Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv showed Verdi's La Traviata - review

Review on Verdi's La Traviata was shown at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv on Sunday.

JULY 27, 2022ByHAGAY HACOHEN
LA TRAVIATA - Alfredo (Oreste Cosimo) next to female living statue.