Opera

OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

If adopted by the 400 million weekly active users of ChatGPT, OpenAI's browser could put pressure on a key component of rival Google's ad-money spigot.

 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends an event to pitch AI for businesses in Tokyo, Japan, February 3, 2025; illustrative.
 THE ISRAELI OPERA’S production of Puccini’s ‘Turandot’ has it all.

'Turandot' returns to Israel's Opera after Operation Rising Lion

The Israeli Operage stages ‘Ariadne auf Naxos.’

The Israeli Opera unveils Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos

 ISRAELI CONDUCTOR Omer Meir Wellber.

Vienna remembers the Holocaust with music


Facing the Red Sea: ‘La Bohème’ opera in Tel Aviv gives the gift of imagination - review

Performed against a massive window, that, at times, alternately presents the audience with the Eiffel Tower or the City of Lights at night.

‘LA BOHEME’ with Yael Levita as Musetta.

Opera brings Eichmann’s trial to the stage in dramatic world premiere

The opera dramatizes the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the central architects of the Holocaust.

 EICHMANN: THE Devil Speaks.

Puccini’s ‘La Bohème beckons audiences to the Israeli Opera

Adapted from the 1851 novel Scenes of Bohemian Life by Henri Murger, Puccini’s version soared to hold a unique place in the hearts of audiences ever since it was first performed in 1896.

‘LA BOHÈME’ brings Paris to life.

Jerusalem highlights: March 21-27

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 ‘The Golden Sheaf’

Maestro Leonardo Sini masterfully handles the podium with the Israel Philharmonic - review

Precise timing and coordination of the participants are the essence of opera productions, and Sini unified the orchestra, soloists, and chorus with skill.

 MAESTRO LEONARDO SINI.

'Theodor' returns to Israeli Opera

The opera attempts to answer why and how Zionism – and our own existence as Hebrew-speaking Jews in Israel – emerged.

 Theodor

Opera to show screenings on Valentine’s Day across Israel

The opera was recently performed at the Israeli Opera in a vivid homage to the late director Omri Nitzan under revival director Shirit Lee Weiss. 

 MARIA NAZAROVA and Bogdan Volkov in ‘The Love Elixir.’

A masterful ‘Otello’ at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv - review

Pascu’s fantastic performance masterfully kept guests on the edge of these said seats and was equally rich with such small details.

 IAGO IS ABLE to poison Otello’s mind in the great Verdi opera.

Top 10 reasons to leave the house: January 31 - February 11

These are the top 10 reasons to leave the house this week.

 THE ISRAEL Opera’s version of Humperdinck’s ‘Hansel and Gretel

Jerusalem highlights: January 24 – January 30

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 ‘HaOger’ (The Hoarder; see Mon day).

Louisville Orchestra remembers its concertmaster with an opera he performed in a concentration camp

Though Kling played in rehearsals for “Der Kaiser von Atlantis,” the opera was never performed in Theresienstadt.

 Teddy Abrams, music director of the Louisville Orchestra, was integral to the decision to stage "Der Kaiser von Atlantis" to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.