“Mr. Sams suggests in this production that the Eisensteins—the troubled married couple at the work’s center, sung by the baritone Christopher Maltman and the soprano Susanna Phillips—may be Jews. ‘They have a menorah and a Christmas tree,’ he said, alluding to their assimilated status. ‘I don’t want to make too much of that, but we are putting it on stage. And we’re using words like schlemiel and mensch‘.” [Wall Street Journal]

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