Opera

Yiddish-Cuban opera to premiere in Havana

Opera based on 86-year-old Yiddish poem will have its premiere in Havana next month.

French-Israeli conductor Frederic Chaslin walked out after management refused to let him play Hatikva and speak.

Jewish groups in New York will be protesting presentation of an opera called “The Death of Klinghoffer," which many consider anti-Semitic.

An opera about Nazi atrocities against handicapped children had its world premiere in Vienna on Friday.

Famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli told the UK's Telegraph newspaper that Israel "had a very special atmosphere."

Russian singer Evgeny Nikitin has pulled out of an opera festival in Germany amid controversy over his Nazi tattoo.

For the first time ever, a free live broadcast of the premier of Carmen at Masada will take place in three locations around Israel.