Berthold Tours John Stainer. The works he edited included "Iphigenia in Aulis", "Iphigenia in Tauris" and "Orpheus" by Gluck; "L'Étoile du nord" by Meyerbeer; "Il seraglio" and "Zauberflöte" by Mozart; "Guillaume Tell" by Rossini; "Der Fliegender Holländer" and "Lohengrin" by Wagner; "Euryanthe" by Weber; Mendelssohn's "Elijah"; Gounod's "Mors et Vita" and "Redemption", numerous piano albums, and many others. He also arranged scores of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas for piano and voice. He was also a composer and composed a cantata for female voices called "The Home of Titania" (1893); an anthem entitled "A Festival Ode" (1893) for organ and soprano, which was
The Dybbuk: An opera in Yiddish The Dybbuk: An opera in Yiddish The Dybbuk: An Opera in Yiddish is an opera in three acts by American composer Solomon Epstein. The libretto was adapted by the composer from S. Ansky's 1914 play "The Dybbuk" and is apparently the world's first original Yiddish language opera. It was premiered and recorded at the Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater, Tel Aviv, and at Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba, in May 1999. The opera was staged in a 70 minute abridged version using the composer's piano-vocal score. It has not yet been produced with a full orchestra. Yiddish, spoken mainly by