Not content to stage one opera this summer, TodiMusicFest will offer three. The lineup – grand opera, rock opera and jazz opera – may be stretching the definition of this musical genre. But this ...

Most of us can relate to having unfinished projects. Imagine dedicating 25 years of your life to creating an all-encompassing dictionary — yet, never getting past the first letter. This is the story ...

Opera, like sweetbreads or Jerry Lewis movies, is an acquired taste that a lot of people never acquire. There isn’t much middle ground. Opera is either felt to be one of civilization’s most ennobling ...

When Ben Kaplan and Alex Weiser started working at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, they heard one of its essential legends in the form of a joke. The 100-year-old library and archive, whose ...

Those of you waiting for the web browser known as Opera to join us here in the future – the future that includes "Retina" and otherwise high-definition displays galore – now is your day in the sun.

In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...