Jewish Operas, Volume 2
Title |
Time |
Play |
| Gimpel the Fool | 20:02 | ▼ |
| Scene 10: Lullaby | 03:59 | |
| Scene 11: Pantomime | 01:39 | |
| Scene 11a: Bread Song | 03:24 | |
| Scene 11b: Night Music | 02:41 | |
| Scene 11c: Gimpel and the Goat | 02:17 | |
| Scene 11d: Elka's "Gvald" | 01:32 | |
| Scene 11e: The Divorce | 03:09 | |
| Scene 11f: Gimpel's Second Monologue | 01:24 | |
| Lady of the Lake | 17:40 | ▼ |
| Scene 5 | 09:15 | |
| Interlude | 01:25 | |
| Scene 6 | 02:18 | |
| Scene 7 | 04:38 | |
| Esther | 15:07 | ▼ |
| Act I, Scene 8 (excerpt) | 03:47 | |
| Act III, Scene 2 | 03:57 | |
| Act III, Scene 10 | 07:32 |
Schiff - Siegmeister - Weisgall
Two of the 20th century's most esteemed Jewish literary figures are represented among these operas: Bernard Malamud, whose Jewish stories are an acknowledged part of American literature, and Nobel laureate Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, whose story about mysteries in eastern European village life is reinvented for David Schiff's acclaimed opera Gimpel the Fool. Weisgall's Esther, based on the biblical story, was premiered in 1993 and hailed by some critics as the most important American opera of its generation.
Review and Recognition:
"The main effect of listening to these opera extracts was to leave me with a hunger for more. They are each inventive, tuneful, dramatic, and easily accessible to the modern opera lover." —Ken Hoover, Classical Voice of North Carolina, and producer of WCPE's Great Sacred Music