Rabia Ben Barka ربيعة بن بركة
Rabia Ben Barka in conversation with Rivka Jacobson
(Below full translation from English to Arabic by Sabri Malik)
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Shirily Deshe
Shirily Deshe in conversation with Rivka Jacobson
Shirili (which in Hebrew means ‘sing to me') Deshe is the daughter of a near-legendary figure on th...
The Dumb Waiter
Hampstead Theatre management and staff deserve full marks for securing a safe auditorium in the current Covid-19 pandemic. The theatre follows the gov...
Idan Raichel
The journey of the dreadlocked Idan Raichel, in his early twenties, composing music on his synthesizers from his parents’ Tel Aviv basement, to Idan R...
Adam Spreadbury-Maher and David Eaton talk to Rivka Jacobson
It was a sheer coincidence that the person seated next to me at the Trafalgar Studios 2 was no other than Adam Spreadbury-Maher, the director of the s...
Opera Undone: Tosca & La Boheme
Take two of Puccini’s most popular operas – Tosca and La Boheme and reduce them into one hour each, edit music and narrative and you get ‘opera undone...
The Visit or The Old Lady Comes to Call
What a memorable visit!
The dramatic opening scene of men waiting at the backwater town of Slurry’s station, the sounds of fast-passing trains, bil...
Roberto Abbado in conversation with Rivka Jacobson
At the Monaco Opera House, the 2019 season opens with Donizetti’s opera ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’, known as a tragic drama in two parts. Roberto Abbado co...
Jean-Louis Grinda in conversation with Rivka Jacobson
Jean-Louis Grinda is the director of the Opera House in Monte Carlo. His boss is Caroline, Princess of Hanover, he explains with a smile and hastens t...
Olga Peretyatko in conversation with Rivka Jacobson
Olga Peretyatko’s debut performance as Norina in the current performance of Donizetti’s comic masterpiece, Don Pasquale, at the Royal Opera House is a...