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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knew about opera came from a Core class I took," he said. "So I guess we can thank the Literature and Arts B requirement for Yussele Solevey...

Author: By Brady R. Dewar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lowell Opera Composers Speak at Hillel | 3/12/1999 | See Source »

Elkies' and Dauber's opera Yussele Solevey, an adaptation of a book by the same name by Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, is the first original opera performed by the Lowell House opera...

Author: By Brady R. Dewar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lowell Opera Composers Speak at Hillel | 3/12/1999 | See Source »

Dauber said he chose to adapt Sholem Aleichem's short story Yussele Solevey to the operatic form because he knew of no Jewish operas, and he felt the story would adapt well to opera...

Author: By Brady R. Dewar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lowell Opera Composers Speak at Hillel | 3/12/1999 | See Source »

...opera centers on a cantor, Yussele, whose beautiful voice earns him the nickname Solevey, the Polish vernacular for "nightingale." To study music, he must leave his tiny town and his love, Esther, behind...

Author: By Brady R. Dewar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lowell Opera Composers Speak at Hillel | 3/12/1999 | See Source »

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