I don’t want the terms dictated to me,” the 37-year-old former opera singer, who is black and Jewish, told JTA. In “Convergence,” Russell aims to do just that, melding Jewish songs ...

Paul Kling was 14 when he played violin for a newly written opera, surrounded by sickness and death, in the Czech ...

Meyerbeer's vast fortune and the great success of his operas, as well as his observance of the laws of the Jewish religion, ...

“We’re kind of hard-wired to digest grief and turn it into art or song,” said Elana Brody, a Jewish singer-songwriter. (JTA) — It was only about a week into lockdown last spring when Elana ...