The Pearl Fishers Shmuel Ben-Tovim 03/07/2016 Why is the Pearl Fishers not being performed too often at the best opera houses all over the world? And why did the first ever production in Israel ha...
Macbeth Shmuel Ben-Tovim 22/05/2016 It is the second time for the Jean-Claude Auvray version of Macbeth to appear on the stage of the Israeli Opera, the first being 16 years ago. Then it...
Romeo et Juliette Shmuel Ben-Tovim 22/04/2016 Shakespeare’s original Romeo et Juliette has inspired endless number of variations by writers, composers and so many other walks of arts. Yet, Charles...
La Cenerentola Shmuel Ben-Tovim 24/03/2016 Very surprisingly, I left this production totally unmoved. Surprise – because thinking about it more thoroughly I could not find any fault in any of t...
Rinaldo Shmuel Ben-Tovim 06/03/2016 Rinaldo is loosely based on Torquato Tasso’s epic poem “Jerusalem Delivered”. As this was the first production of the opera in Israel in recent memory...
Die Fledermaus Shmuel Ben-Tovim 14/02/2016 If you try to ignore for a moment the modern venue of the Israeli Opera House in Tel Aviv, you could easily imagine yourself sitting in an opera theat...
Il Trovatore Shmuel Ben-Tovim 05/01/2016 Il Trovatore’s striking contrast between lyric melodies and chilling events on stage have made it long ago one of Verdi’s most popular operas. With so...
