Alberto Mizrahi, better known as the "Jewish Pavarotti," has a new gig—as the Cantor-in-Residence at Sarasota's Temple Beth Sholom, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports. The 78-year-old cantor, who has performed with the Miami Opera and the New York Philharmonic, will join Cantor-in-Residence Matthew Austerklein at the synagogue's annual Hanukkah concert on Sunday. The concert will feature Mizrahi's "rich tenor and baritone voices in a variety of holiday songs in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Greek, and English," according to a press release. Austerklein, a Grammy-nominated violist, joined Temple Beth Sholom earlier this year and will accompany Mizrahi.
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