Reviewer's Rating Manon Shmuel Ben-Tovim 11/12/2019As surprising as it may be, this is the first production of Jules Massenet’s Manon for the Israeli Opera. There...
Reviewer's rating Zero Motivation אפס ביחסי אנוש Yael Shuv 31/10/2019Five years ago, Talya Lavie’s biting comedy about a unit of bored female soldiers in a remote desert base became...
Reviewer's rating School of Rock רוק בבית הספר Yael Shuv 18/10/2019Third 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 22/09/2019At 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 05/07/2019My 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 10/05/2019Reviewing 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 03/04/2019119 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 13/02/2019This 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 14/01/2019In 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 23/11/2018When Goethe published The Sorrows of Young Werther in 1774 he was criticised as idealizing acts of suicide. Many readers have...