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Samuel Alman
… studies at the Royal College of Music. There he focused on opera composition, and debuted his first biblical opera, King Ahaz in 1912. In 1916 he was appointed the …
Moshe Koussevitsky
… escaped to Russia , where he continued to tour as an Opera soloist in Moscow , Leningrad , Kiev and Odessa. In …
Marc Lavry
… later in 1932 received a post as conductor of the Riga Opera. In response to the rise of the Nazi party and the … Between 1941 and 1947 Lavry conducted the Palestine Folk Opera and Palestine Orchestra. In 1950 Lavry was invited … meter characteristic of the traditional folk dance. His Opera, Dan ha’shomer (1945) was the first of its kind to be …
Myer Leoni
… Myer Leoni began his musical career as an opera singer in England . In 1767 he took a position as … the Great Synagogue in London , but continued performing in Operas, providing they didn’t conflict with his Synagogue … Leoni, along with collegue Giordani, established an English Opera company in Dublin in 1783, which due to financial …
Gustav Mahler
… more prestigious institution that staged both theater and Opera. Beginning in 1882, Mahler took several temporary … an invitation to work as the Director of the Vienna Court Opera, a post that cemented his reputation as one of the … conductors of his time. Mahler remained at the Vienna Opera for ten years, resigning in 1907 to accept a post as …
Gershon Sirota
… Kolbuss, Sirota studied music theory, vocal technique, and opera. Although Sirota excelled in his secular music … Judge Neuberger, and the famous star of the Metropolitan Opera, Alma Gluck.' This concert cemented Sirota’s standing … Cantors – Hazzanim, Cantors … Cantor … Hazzanut … Odessa … Opera … Singer … Tenor … Recording … Artist … Performer … …
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
… of Tal’s over 100 works are orchestral and stage works (operas, oratorios). Only a dozen of his works that he … stage works. Tal composed extensively for the stage - 18 operas, oratorios, cantatas and dramas – mostly based on … with librettist Israel Eliraz for five of his eight operas, written between 1957 and 1995: Ashmedai, Massada …
Michele Bolaffi
… synagogue. Bolafi also composed secular music, including an opera Saul, a Misere for three voices and orchestra (1802), …
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
… producing a corpus of 70 orchestral works and several Operas, including The Merchant of Venice (1961). In the last …
Mikhail Gnesin
… distinguished work from his “Jewish” period includes: the operas, The Youth of Abraham (1921-23) and The Maccabees …