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.

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.

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.