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Anthony Russell started studying to perform in Yiddish in 2011. (Max Eicke via JTA)
August 16, 2018, 8:46 am
A former opera singer fuses African-American and Yiddish music
In new album, Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell teams up with klezmer band to stretch the boundaries of Jewish music
By Josefin Dolsten
Sara Hershkowitz said the crowd of 15,000 at her Netherlands performance was 'screaming like I was Beyoncé every time I sang above a B natural.' (Thomas Jahn/via JTA)
October 21, 2017, 11:31 pm
Jewish soprano takes on Trump in absurdist opera piece
When Sara Hershkowitz was offered the lead in a surreal composition that pokes fun at despots and their excesses, she knew she had to ‘do it as Donald’
By Toby Axelrod
This September 20, 2017 photo provided by the Metropolitan Opera shows Golda Schultz as Pamina in a production of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. (Richard Termine/Metropolitan Opera via AP)
October 10, 2017, 8:13 pm
Golda Schultz gets high-profile Met debut
South African soprano named for late Israeli PM stars in production of ‘The Magic Flute’ to be broadcast worldwide
By mike silverman
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (YouTube screenshot)
March 23, 2017, 6:08 am
Jewish countertenor takes Metropolitan Opera award
23-year-old Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen one of six winners among the nine finalists who performed at Lincoln Center
By JTA
Mezzo soprano Hagar Sharvit with Ammiel Bushakevitz at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/Hagar Sharvit)
February 25, 2015, 12:02 pm
Israeli opera singer wins prestigious Berlin contest
Hagar Sharvit wows judges with her vocal skills; pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz also scores a prize
By Stuart Winer
Israeli soprano Chen Reis sang at the Vatican's Christmas mass at the behest of Pope Francis in December 2014. (Paul Marc Mitchell)
February 2, 2015, 3:54 am
How a Jewish Israeli soprano found holiness in front of the Pope
After receiving a call from the Vatican, Chen Reiss cleared her jam-packed schedule to sing to an audience of 700 million
By Jenni Frazer
A scene from the production of Weinberg's 'The Passenger,' during the Bregenz Festival in Bregenz, Austria in 2010. (photo credit: AP Photo/Bregenz Festival , Karl Forster)
November 26, 2013, 1:14 pm
Weinberg’s ‘The Passenger’ to be staged at NY armory
Holocaust-themed opera takes place on a ship in the 1950s when a German couple once in the SS spots a former Auschwitz inmate
By AP
95-year-old Austrian soprano Hilde Zadek delivers a speech to the parliament in Vienna, after being awarded the Great Medal of Honor of the Austrian Republic on August 31, 2012. (photo credit: Parlamentsdirektion/Bildagentur Zolles KG/Jacqueline Godany/AP)
December 21, 2012, 6:53 am
Jewish soprano still singing in Vienna at the age of 95
Early in her career, Nazi sympathizers tried, and failed to derail Hilde Zadek’s budding career
By George Jahn
Russian baritone Evgeny Nikitin dropped out in July from a new production of Wagner's 'Die Fliegende Hollaender' after a 2008 image of the tattoo, which appeared to be a swastika, was broadcast on German television. (photo credit: AP Photo/dapd, Christoph Soeder, File)
August 2, 2012, 12:53 pm
Nikitin insists tattoo was not swastika
Russian opera singer says he’s no neo-Nazi: ‘My two grandfathers were both killed by Nazi forces’
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