119 years after the great success of the opening night of Tosca in Rome, the audience in Tel Aviv was privileged to share a very similar experience. F...
This is one of Verdi's most neglected of his great operas. However, this production makes the case well for reviving Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ba...
In 2014 pianist András Schiff wrote: “What is it with directors? Why is it that most directors find it so hard to fade into the background and stand i...
When Goethe published The Sorrows of Young Werther in 1774 he was criticised as idealizing acts of suicide. Many readers have simplified the message a...
My most vivid memory of a Carmen goes back to the mid 80’s when I was privileged to watch Zeffirelli’s own production at the Staatsoper Wien with Tere...
There were two prominent precedents set in this production. Firstly, the Rishon le’Zion Symphonic Orchestra, a regular in the pit of the Israeli Opera...
This was a classic opera production, a remake of original direction and design made for several Spanish opera companies. The story is grave, and so is...
This was an absolutely amazing, sophisticated, breathtaking opera production, definitely one of the best in recent memory at the Tel Aviv Opera House....
This review must begin with applause to people whose names do not appear in the list of credits below: the management of the Israeli Opera House. For ...
"The City" is a modern Hebrew-language rap musical detective thriller, written by the local Jerusalem band "The Victor Jackson Show". Its is a masterpiece of hip-hop poetry slam...
