Opera

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.

September 2, 2018 1:38 pm

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.

February 23, 2017 7:27 am

Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her opera debut

The Supreme Court justice performed with the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in a role whose lines were rewritten to reflect the current political climate.

November 14, 2016 9:43 am