Franco Zeffirelli

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…

Doyen of American TV personalities Andy Rooney once purported that “The last birthday that’s any good is 23.” Considering Rooney is close to seven…

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…

Called the "leading tenor of his generation," Brooklyn-born Neil Shicoff will sing Don Jose in the upcoming Israel Opera production of Bizet's…

Size mattersSir, - It is hard to imagine that a country of seven million requires a cabinet of 30 ministers, twice the size of the US president's…

Israeli OperaLa bohemeBy Giacomo PucciniThe Opera HouseTel AvivMarch 22Franco Zeffirelli's revived direction and sets in Puccini's tear-jerker La…

"From my early childhood, I was obsessed with music," says Keri-Lynn Wilson as she rests in the conductor's room of the Israel Opera. The tall and…

A revival of Franco Zeffirelli's opulent La Boheme opens at the Israel Opera on March 20 and will run until April 4. The revival director is…

You could call this the Franco Zeffirelli season at the Israel Opera (IO). There'll be three of his enormous productions - a revival of La Boheme…

It is all but impossible not to love Giacomo Puccini's rich and moving music, and in his last opera, Turandot, the Italian composer reaches one of…

Two of France's biggest film stars, Fanny Ardant and Gerard Depardieu, have been in Israel since the beginning of this month shooting the movie Hello…

Today through June 2, the Israeli Opera in cooperation with Italy's Arturo Toscanini Foundation will be premiering a new production of Mozart's Cosi…

It happens every spring. Mother Nature comes out of hibernation and decks herself in a bedazzling array of variegated splendor that shakes us out of…

The New Israel Opera and the Israel Philharmonic have opened their new season with the same piece of music - Verdi's famous La Traviata ("The fallen…

The Israel Opera is opening its '05/'06 season with Franco Zefirelli's acclaimed and latest production of Verdi's La Traviata. Zefirelli, now 82, who…