InsightALT: “Tevye’s Daughters”

Name: InsightALT: “Tevye’s Daughters”
Start: 2026-03-19T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

Schedule

Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust | New York, NY

American Lyric Theater partners with the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust to present a concert of Tevye’s Daughters – a new opera by Alex Weiser and Stephanie Fleischmann.
Inspired by the darker, grittier stories by Sholem Aleichem not included in Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye’s Daughters centers on the tale of the beloved milkman’s younger daughter Shprintse, who falls in love with a young man above her station. Like so many women of her generation, Shprintse has no choice but to navigate her crisis in silence. Galvanized by the literature of little-known female Yiddish writers, as well as tkhines – Yiddish prayers designated expressly for women – Tevye’s Daughters rewrites that silence, giving voice to a generation of women whose stories have frequently been suppressed, omitted, and even erased. The opera moves between a shtetl in Ukraine in 1907 and a summer cabin in the Catskills in 1964, as Tseytl, Khave, and Beylke, now old women, haunted by a vestigial memory submerged for more than half a century, can no longer look away from the past. The arrival of Rose, a granddaughter grappling with her own sexual identity, incites the sisters not only to remember Shprintse’s traumatic story, but to come to terms with their shared tumultuous present.
Composer – Alex Weiser
Librettist – Stephanie Fleischmann
CAST
Tevye – Gideon Dabi
Golde – Mary-Hollis Hundley
Rose / Shprintse – Elizabeth Sutphen
Tseytl – Jennifer Zetlan
Beylke – Gina Perregrino
Khave – Heather Johnson
Arontshik – Hayden Smith
Conductor – Geoffrey McDonald
American Lyric Theater Chamber Orchestra. Presented by the Museum of Jewish Heritage, in partnership with American Lyric Theater; co-sponsored by YIVO.