According to Millstein, this opera doesn’t just uncover a part of Louisville’s Jewish history. The story told through the music reveals a world of Jewish exploration that Ullman found in a ...
His father was a banker and a prominent figure in the Jewish community ... Jacob studied music theory and composition with Antonio Salieri. In 1812, Meyerbeer’s opera Oath of Yiftach, based ...
Evan Zimmerman/Met Opera After the Anschluss in 1938 ... “I became interested in the forbidden ‘Jewish music’ of Gustav Mahler, and Offenbach’s Barcarole became my anthem,” he wrote.