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The Berkeley Community Chorus & Orchestra performs. (Bill Hocker/Courtesy BCCO)
Posted inMusic

Berkeley premiere sings a requiem for the dead of Terezín

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert May 20, 2026May 26, 2026

Composer Michael Schachter has been thinking about Terezín for the past 15 years. Growing up as a music-minded black sheep in a sports-obsessed Reform family where the guiding patriarchs were […]

Aaron Sheehan (left) as Jonathan and Derek Chester in "David and Jonathan" opera
Posted inTheater

Baroque-era ‘David and Jonathan’ opera gets new, queer adaptation in Oakland

by Sue Fishkoff July 21, 2025July 21, 2025
Supervisor Harvey Milk at the 1978 San Francisco Gay Day Parade, as it was then called. (Courtesy GLBT Historical Society Jewish LGBTQ Voices and Activism Source Set)
Posted inTheater

Harvey Milk opera that ‘reimagines’ the gay Jewish icon returns to S.F.

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb May 14, 2025May 15, 2025
"Before It Goes Dark" will be performed in San Francisco on May 22. (Photo/Verismo Communications)
Posted inOn Stage

‘Before It All Goes Dark’: Newspaper article about Nazi-looted art inspires opera coming to S.F.

by Howard Reich May 14, 2024May 15, 2024
Emma McAlister plays Eve in "The Apple Tree" at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. (Photo/Mia Perrotta)
Posted inMusic

Soprano Emma McAlister wants to ‘make Wagner turn over in his grave’

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert April 21, 2022
Eugen Engel in the 1930s at the composer's monument in the Tiergarten park in Berlin.
Posted inTheater

Rediscovered in a basement, Jewish composer’s prewar opera will now be staged in Germany

by Dan Pine February 7, 2022February 8, 2022
David Bamberger
Posted inUncategorized

Q&A: Drawn to Gilbert & Sullivan, and now the Bay Area

by Patricia Corrigan September 25, 2019September 25, 2019
Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti is the subject of a new chamber opera coming to San Francisco, May 23, 2019.
Posted inCulture

Nazis silenced him, but his poetry lives on in new opera coming to S.F.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 14, 2019
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen is one of the few Jewish opera singers in the country. (Photo/Kristen Loken)
Posted inOn Stage

Young Jewish opera star comes to Bay Area as King David himself

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 20, 2019March 21, 2019
he sits playing an oboe among other members of the orchestra
Posted inTalking With ..., Jewish Life

Q&A: This opera fan shares his passion with the masses

by Patricia Corrigan June 5, 2017June 6, 2017

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