Opera, like sweetbreads or Jerry Lewis movies, is an acquired taste that a lot of people never acquire. There isn’t much middle ground. Opera is either felt to be one of civilization’s most ennobling ...
Not content to stage one opera this summer, TodiMusicFest will offer three. The lineup – grand opera, rock opera and jazz opera – may be stretching the definition of this musical genre. But this ...
In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...
The Metropolitan Opera has broadcast radio performances for generations. Saturday, the Met beamed a live performance in high definition to movie theaters around the world. As Frank Morris of member ...