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Part 5 – Why Promote Italian Opera Via the Mame-loshn?

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Part 5 – Why Promote Italian Opera Via the Mame-loshn?

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May 10, 2022

From the series: How Do You Say “Bravo” in Yiddish?: Italian Opera for the Yiddish-Speaking Masses in Early 20th-Century America

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Is a public that still gets its news from Yiddish newspapers likely to attend the opera? This lecture explores the implications of promoting Italian opera among a largely uneducated working-class population, the questions of assimilation and acculturation raised by these endeavors, the parallel English-language opera scene, and the complicated yet symbiotic relationship between the high and popular cultural spheres.

The final part of this 5-part series featuring Daniela Smolov Levy, Ph.D.

Presented by the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.