Aida

The walls of Jerusalem’s Old City once again echoed with impassioned cries from the Tower of David on Monday afternoon – not the voices of guards or…

Over the years, we’ve had some of the greatest names in the performing arts world appearing at or sending work to the Israel Festival: violinist…

As a part of its Delicatessen series, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra presents a semi-staged production of The Barber of Seville, arguably…

Ernani, Verdi’s little-known early opera, based on Victor Hugo’s play Hernani, is a seldom performed work. The improbable story of three men – a…

This is the big one for the Israeli dance community – professionals and fans alike. This year’s Hot Dance festival kicks off today at the Suzanne…

Arik Davidov’s concert-show with the Sinfonietta was a celebration of the trumpet. The Israeli trumpeter and former prodigy of the IDF Band, put on…

While no one could rightly accuse David Pountney of cultivating a penchant for the bizarre, his artistic choices often tend to stray some distance…

If we can’t go anywhere, why, the world will come to us via the 2010/11 season of opera, dance and music at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center…

Ivo PogorelicThe Jerusalem Theater March 17I’ll start with an old joke: Mr. and Mrs. Smith, who have season tickets to the opera, invite the Johnsons…

The largest Purim parade in Israel will take place on Sunday, February 28, at 12 p.m. This year’s carnival will be dedicated to the 25th anniversary…

The first things you notice are the bullet marks. There are literally millions of them, and they cover everything. It seems no pre-1992 construction…

EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR Yasser Reda was a very junior diplomat at the time of the signing of the peace treaty with Egypt. His father had been an army…

Israeli consensus... Sir, - It came as no surprise to read an op-ed by the CEO and president of Americans for Peace Now claiming that President…

While La Scala Milan is in Tel Aviv performing Aida at the Opera House and Requiem at Ganei Yehoshua, the theater will also make a stop at Ichilov…

La Scala, one of the world's leading opera companies, is coming to Tel Aviv to present its larger than life version of Verdi's Aida, staged by Franco…

More than 400 artists from La Scala, Milan, will come to Tel Aviv for six performances of Verdi's Aida in Zeffirelli's classical production, under…

La Scala is staging six performances of Verdi's Aida at the Tel Aviv opera house and one open-air concert of Verdi's Requiem at Ganei Yehoshua. Three…

One of the world's leading singers (and one of the world's 50 most beautiful people, according to People magazine), the silver-haired Russian…

PRIME MINISTER Netanyahu's brother in law, Prof. Hagai Ben Artzi, who has been known to give him advice in the past, has done so publicly with regard…

As Tel Aviv hosts its annual White Night on Wednesday, the Israeli Opera's soloists will perform three hours of popular arias at the Opera House. The…