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Production photo of Bennet Pologe, Hannah Grace Hollingsworth, and Claire Iverson from the opera, Sima
Feb 3, 2026

Theater for the New City 2026 Review: Leonard Lehrman’s ‘SIMA’ and ‘E.G.: A Musical Portrait of Emma Goldman’

(Photo: Jonathan Slaff) Theater for the New City (TNC) presented two chamber operas by Leonard Lehrman, “SIMA” and “E.G.: A Musical Portrait of Emma Goldman,” on January 22 and 23, 2026, respectively, with each performed on alternating nights between January 8 and 25. This reviewer chose to watch the two operas back-to-back to better understand Lehrman’s range, as I had {…}

Jan 22, 2026

Bringing Her Home – Composer Leonard Lehrman on the Decades-Long Journey to Get ‘Sima’ its NYC Premiere

(Photo by Jonathan Slaff) In the 1970s, Leonard Lehrman, a Kansas-born but Long Island-raised composer of 12 operas and seven musicals whose major mentors include Elie Siegmeister, Lenore Anhalt, and Olga Heifetz,  wrote “Sima,” an opera about a Jewish girl orphaned by a pogrom in 1905 in Ukraine. For decades, the composer attempted to bring the opera to a New {…}

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