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Based on Ansky's play about Khonnon and Leah, whose fathers promise them in marriage before birth. When Leah's father breaks the engagement, Khonnon dies and returns as a dybbuk possessing Leah. After rabbinical intervention, she chooses union with Khonnon's ghost over marriage to a wealthier suitor.
On her wedding day, Leah is possessed by the spirit of Khanan, the poor scholar she loved, after he dies upon learning that her father has arranged another marriage. A rabbinical court investigates their fathers' broken vow, and an exorcism frees Leah, but she ultimately joins Khanan in death.
The roles include Channon, Leah, the Messenger, Rabbi Azrael, Meyer, Sender, Chennoch and Frade.
A young woman is possessed by the spirit of her dead beloved. Broken promises between their families bring religious authorities and supernatural forces into a struggle over love, obligation, and the boundary between life and death.
A three-act Yiddish-language opera adapted from S. Ansky’s play The Dybbuk.
In a small Long Island synagogue, elderly Russian Jewish men gather the ten adults required for a minyan to exorcise a dybbuk possessing a member’s granddaughter. They enlist a hungover young man who falls in love with her as the progressive rabbi agrees to lead the ritual.
Based on Ansky's play about Khonnon and Leah, whose fathers promise them in marriage before birth. When Leah's father breaks the engagement, Khonnon dies and returns as a dybbuk possessing Leah. After rabbinical intervention, she chooses union with Khonnon's ghost over marriage to a wealthier suitor.
On her wedding day, Leah is possessed by the spirit of Khanan, the poor scholar she loved, after he dies upon learning that her father has arranged another marriage. A rabbinical court investigates their fathers' broken vow, and an exorcism frees Leah, but she ultimately joins Khanan in death.
The roles include Channon, Leah, the Messenger, Rabbi Azrael, Meyer, Sender, Chennoch and Frade.
A young woman is possessed by the spirit of her dead beloved. Broken promises between their families bring religious authorities and supernatural forces into a struggle over love, obligation, and the boundary between life and death.
A three-act Yiddish-language opera adapted from S. Ansky’s play The Dybbuk.
In a small Long Island synagogue, elderly Russian Jewish men gather the ten adults required for a minyan to exorcise a dybbuk possessing a member’s granddaughter. They enlist a hungover young man who falls in love with her as the progressive rabbi agrees to lead the ritual.