Marc Lavry: Dan Hashomer
Neil W. Levin continues his exploration of Jewish opera under the auspices of his position as Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music. In this latest installment of his forthcoming book, Professor Levin explores Marc Lavry’s, Dan Hashomer (Dan the Watchman), the first opera to be both composed and premiered in modern Israel.
Read previous installments:
The first Yiddish opera, King Ahaz (Melekh Akhaz), composed in 1911 by Samuel Alman
Ofer Ben-Amots's operatic adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's story, Gan eydn fun a nar
A Jewish Opera on a Hassidic Tale
Paul Schoenfield's operatic adaptation of a Rebbe Nachman of Bratslav story, The Merchant and the Pauper
An Inexhaustible Operatic Inspiration
The famous Yiddish play by S. An-ski, The Dybbuk, as the source for many operas
David Tamkin’s opera, The Dybbuk, based on the famous Yiddish play by S. An-ski
A Yiddish Opera from Warsaw 1924
Henoch Kon’s opera Dovid un Bas Sheva, the third Yiddish opera ever written
Moses Milner’s Di himlen brenen (The Heavens Are Ablaze), the second full-length Yiddish opera ever written
Is the Most Famous “Jewish Opera” Jewish?
Jacques Fromenthal Halévy’s La Juive (The Jewess)
Ofer Ben-Amots's opera, The Dybbuk, based on the famous Yiddish play by S. An-ski
Alex Weiser: State of the Jews
Alex Weiser’s 2019 two-act opera, State of the Jews, written with librettist Ben Kaplan
An introduction to the little-known history of Jewish opera
Robert Strassburg’s Chelm, a comic Jewish folk opera in one act
Darius Milhaud: Esther de Carpentras
Darius Milhaud’s Esther de Carpentras, a comic opera
Lazare Saminsky: The Vision of Ariel
Lazare Saminsky's The Vision of Ariel, an opera ballet
David Amram: The Final Ingredient
David Amram's The Final Ingredient, a historical fiction
Depictions of Queen Esther in opera
Elie Siegmeister: Lady of the Lake
Elie Siegmeister’s one-act opera, Lady of the Lake