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 ...

Halévy's seminal work is the opera The Jewess (La Juive), which became one of the cornerstones of the French repertoire for a ...

2 killing, which rocked Munich’s Jewish community. Nikola David, 55, was a former opera singer who had been cantor at Congregation Beth Shalom since 2014. The synagogue’s rabbi, Tom Kučera ...

the orchestra’s music director and one of several Jewish members behind the production. The performance will also feature ...