Reviewer's rating School of Rock רוק בבית הספר Yael Shuv 18/10/2019 4363Third time’s a charm. The third production of the Tel Aviv’s new musical theatre is, well, charming. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s...
Reviewer's rating Chaplin – The Musical צ’פלין – המחזמר Yael Shuv 22/09/2019 5167At long last Tel Aviv has a new theatre, solely dedicated to musicals. While the idea is tantalizing, the execution...
Reviewer's rating Worlds in Collision (עולמות מתנגשים) Noa Goren 05/07/2019 5368My next observation is nothing more than my opinion, on the one hand, although backed up by deep observation on...
Reviewer's Rating The Passenger Shmuel Ben-Tovim 10/05/2019 2961Reviewing The Passenger is a very unusual and challenging task. An opera that brings to life the very dark days...
Reviewer's Rating Tosca Shmuel Ben-Tovim 03/04/2019 3130119 years after the great success of the opening night of Tosca in Rome, the audience in Tel Aviv was...
Reviewer's Rating Un Ballo in Maschera Shmuel Ben-Tovim 13/02/2019 3454This is one of Verdi’s most neglected of his great operas. However, this production makes the case well for reviving...
Reviewer's Rating Salomé Shmuel Ben-Tovim 14/01/2019 3845In 2014 pianist András Schiff wrote: “What is it with directors? Why is it that most directors find it so...
Reviewer's Rating Werther Shmuel Ben-Tovim 23/11/2018 2915When Goethe published The Sorrows of Young Werther in 1774 he was criticised as idealizing acts of suicide. Many readers have...
Reviewer's Rating Carmen Shmuel Ben-Tovim 22/07/2018 3202My most vivid memory of a Carmen goes back to the mid 80’s when I was privileged to watch Zeffirelli’s...
Reviewer's Rating Dido And Aeneas Shmuel Ben-Tovim 09/06/2018 5669There were two prominent precedents set in this production. Firstly, the Rishon le’Zion Symphonic Orchestra, a regular in the pit...