Opera

At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews.

Israel’s public classical music station criticized for playing Richard Wagner opera

Wagner’s music traditionally has been boycotted in Israel because he held anti-Semitic views and was Adolf Hitler’s favorite composer.

Yiddish-Cuban opera to premiere in Havana

Composed by Frank London of the Klezmatics, the opera is based on an 86-year-old Yiddish poem about a Taino indigenous chief who resisted the Spanish invaders.