American Classics - Jewish Operas Volume 2

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Label: Naxos - American Classics

Cat No: 8559450

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 2nd January 2007

Works

» scenes 10-11

» scenes 5-7

Esther (scenes 10-13)

Artists

Theodore Bikel
Ted Christopher
Marcus Deloach
Julianna Gondek
Robert Macpherson
Carol Meyer
Seattle Symphony
University of Michigan Opera

Conductor

Gerard Schwarz

Works

» scenes 10-11

» scenes 5-7

Esther (scenes 10-13)

Artists

Theodore Bikel
Ted Christopher
Marcus Deloach
Julianna Gondek
Robert Macpherson
Carol Meyer
Seattle Symphony
University of Michigan Opera

Conductor

Gerard Schwarz

About

Timeless Jewish legends and unforgettable dramatic characters come to life in these opera scenes composed by 20th-century American masters.

With rare exceptions, opera as a vehicle for Jewish expression is almost entirely a phenomenon of the American Jewish experience. During the second half of the 20th century, several established American composers were drawn to genuinely Jewish subjects—legends and myths, Jewish biblical stories, contemporary tales and historical incidents—as the bases for their operas.

Two of the 20th century’s most esteemed Jewish literary figures are represented among these operas: Bernard Malamud, whose Jewish stories occupy an acknowledged place in American literature and whose Lady of the Lake, from the famous collection, The Magic Barrel, has been set by Elie Siegmeister; and Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, whose famous story about mysteries, superstitions, sexual repressions and daily existence in Jewish eastern European village life is reinvented for David Schiff’s opera Gimpel the Fool.

Hugo Weisgall’s Esther, based on the biblical story of the heroic Jewish wife of the Persian king who saved her people from imminent destruction, was premiered at New York City Opera in 1993 and hailed as one of the most important American operas of its generation.

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