{"id":636121,"date":"2026-10-04T13:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/636121\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T13:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:24:12","slug":"in-its-fight-against-isolation-the-israeli-opera-is-betting-on-this-swede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/636121\/","title":{"rendered":"In Its Fight Against Isolation, the Israeli Opera Is Betting on This Swede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">At the beginning of this year, a dybbuk took possession of the Israeli Opera. For three weeks, the company&#8217;s outstanding new opera, based on the Jewish folk legend and set to Josef Bardanashvili&#8217;s captivating score, was performed entirely in Hebrew \u2013 until the spirit was exorcised, not by rabbis but by the Opera&#8217;s scheduling department. Since then, this singular Israeli work has been left without a new body to possess, and without an international audience to appreciate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the beginning of this year, a dybbuk took possession of the Israeli Opera. For three weeks, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1296,11158,57888,85,46,13485,287223,19972,43,5033,3215],"class_list":["post-636121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-bds","tag-frankfurt","tag-frankfurt-book-fair","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-boycott","tag-israel-literature","tag-israeli-culture","tag-news","tag-obituaries","tag-october-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}