Opera is a dramatic art form and, as creators and performers alike note, can reference all kinds of everyday situations and sensibilities. Opera is a high art, notes Vice President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, Emmanuil Grinshpun. The element of relevance takes on a far more palpable magnitude when the subject touches on raw collective nerves. That is clearly the case with the next offering from the Israeli Opera, The Passenger, which opens in Tel Aviv on April 30, with five more performances scheduled through to May 6. It is a remarkable piece, notes Emmanuil Grinshpun.