A Yiddish sing-song from Berlin’s Komische Oper
mainBarrie Kosky and Alma Sadé present Yiddish operetta songs on the empty stage of the Komische Oper Berlin.
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It’s always so pleasant hearing Mame Loschen Deitschland and Kosky is so great.
Very uplifting — I opened this just after watching the applause for the NHS and feel better about humanity today. (Of course we have not had Donald’s Daily Diatribe yet… :))
Wonderful! Thank you Norman for this. I’m sure even the goyim will love it!!
Excellent! Yiddish has largely died out, apart from its use by some ultra-orthodox Jews as their first language and some academic studies. It was the lingua franca in Europe pre- Holocaust.
Barrie Kosky is a force of nature. He is alwa
ys interesting, thoughtful and provocative. ROH and Glyndebourne productions of his in recent years come to mind.
He is also not afraid of confronting German sensibilities, even though that country is where his day job is. It was Yom Hashoah yesterday- Holocaust Memorial Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh5uWajtPtA
“Yiddish was the lingua franca in Europe pre- Holocaust”
No it wasn’t. It was widely spoken among Ashkenzy Jews, but it was rare for anyone else to speak it. Standard German would have been the “lingua franca” in central and eastern Europe in the 19th century and up to WW2. People in Western Europe would have used English or French as their “lingua franca”, which many Germans would have known. The dominance of English really postdates WW2.
Is Alma Sadé related to the tenor Gabriel Sade? It’s quite nice actually with some lovely piano playing as well. Now a Cd plz !!!!
I have a feeling that once Barrie Kosky leaves Komische Oper the repertoire will be very different, much more like other opera houses. It is a pity because that is not their strength, as I have noticed in the inadequate Der Rosenkavalier I have watched last year.
Agreed – Rosenkavalier was not one of their best! Let’s hope it is not revived again!
If any of you can obtain the series “Unorthodox” through Netflix or other, I suggest you watch it. The last episode shows that Shira Haas is a very, very, talented singer.
I won’t tell you what she sings, but I will say that it has to do with the theme of this SD article.
Saw it weeks ago, as well as a doco about other ultra-Orthodox people leaving. Left me thinking that one fundamentalist religion is as bad as the next (a feeling that began in me with my own, which is the big C). And you are right about the girl’s voice.
Git gesangt!
More, please! MUCH more!