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.

JANUARY 26, 2026|ByMATHILDA HELLER

SHIR, the Australian Jewish Music Festival, outside the Sydney Opera House.

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.

DECEMBER 21, 2025|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.

DECEMBER 21, 2025|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."

DECEMBER 16, 2025|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA

'Theodor' returns to Israeli Opera

The opera attempts to answer why and how Zionism – and our own existence as Hebrew-speaking Jews in Israel – emerged.

FEBRUARY 12, 2025ByHAGAY HACOHEN

Opera to show screenings on Valentine’s Day across Israel

The opera was recently performed at the Israeli Opera in a vivid homage to the late director Omri Nitzan under revival director Shirit Lee Weiss.

FEBRUARY 10, 2025ByHAGAY HACOHEN

MARIA NAZAROVA and Bogdan Volkov in ‘The Love Elixir.’

A masterful ‘Otello’ at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv - review

Pascu’s fantastic performance masterfully kept guests on the edge of these said seats and was equally rich with such small details.

FEBRUARY 6, 2025ByHAGAY HACOHEN

IAGO IS ABLE to poison Otello’s mind in the great Verdi opera.

Top 10 reasons to leave the house: January 31 - February 11

These are the top 10 reasons to leave the house this week.

JANUARY 31, 2025ByNERIA BARR

THE ISRAEL Opera’s version of Humperdinck’s ‘Hansel and Gretel

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JANUARY 24, 2025ByHAGAY HACOHEN

Louisville Orchestra remembers its concertmaster with an opera he performed in a concentration camp

Though Kling played in rehearsals for “Der Kaiser von Atlantis,” the opera was never performed in Theresienstadt.

JANUARY 24, 2025BySHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA

Teddy Abrams, music director of the Louisville Orchestra, was integral to the decision to stage "Der Kaiser von Atlantis" to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Israeli Opera revives Verdi's 'Otello'

If theater-goers are left to wonder whether Iago hates Otello because he is a racist or because he was skipped for promotion, opera patrons are rewarded with his aria.

JANUARY 23, 2025ByHAGAY HACOHEN

A REHEARSAL this week of Verdi’s Otello at the Israeli Opera.

Inspiration behind Poulenc's Opera: 16 guillotined nuns canonized by Pope Francis

On July 17, 1794, at 8:00 p.m., the nuns were executed in the Place du Trône, today's Place de la Nation, after being convicted of hostility to the French Revolution.

DECEMBER 20, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF