Opera

Israeli Opera returns to Ofakim with community Hebrew production of The Magic Flute

According to the opera company, the performance marked its first return to Ofakim in more than a decade and formed part of its 40th anniversary season.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The Israeli Opera returned to Ofakim on Monday evening with a community production of The Magic Flute. February 3.
SHIR, the Australian Jewish Music Festival, outside the Sydney Opera House.

Jewish musical group performs song in Hebrew in historic Australia Day concert in Sydney

It marked the first time Hebrew has been sung at the iconic Opera House Forecourt in any concert setting, and also the first time a Jewish song has been performed at the Australia Day Live concert.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
JOHNNY BOMBINO as Emperor Überall.

Viktor Ullmann’s 'Der Kaiser von Atlantis' as a manifesto against tyranny - review

Ullmann completed this significantly historical work in Ghetto Theresienstadt just before he was sent to his death in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

|ByLIRAN GURKIEWICZ
ISRAELI CONDUCTOR Lahav Shani and members of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra receive applause from the audience following their performance as guests at the Konzerthaus Berlin, as part of the ongoing Musikfest Berlin, following their disinvitation from the Flanders Festival Ghent, in Berlin, Germa

Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra performs ‘Aida’ opera - review

Youthful, graceful, and very competent, with a cast of top singers, Maestro Vincenzo Milletari took the audience to ancient Egypt and its unique rituals and customs.

|BySARAH HERSHENSON

Israeli Opera feels ‘Orfeo ed Euridice’ in Tel Aviv

Directed by Yehezkel Lazarov, this production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice (Italian spelling) contains multiple layers of meaning, symbols, and sounds.

APRIL 11, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN
NICHOLAS TAMAGNA as Orfeo and Tal Ganor as Amor in ‘Orfeo ed Euridice.’

Mythic opera 'Orfeo ed Euridice' ascends to Tel Aviv

A decade after a Kfar Blum production, Polish director Mariusz Treliński was invited to the Israeli Opera to offer his vision of the myth.

APRIL 1, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN
'ORFEO ED EURIDICE'

A flood of talent in ‘Rusalka’ - review

This much beloved opera, with its mythical and folk aspects, has delighted opera fans since its world premiere in 1901

MARCH 13, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN
MEZZO-SOPRANO Edna Prochnik as Jezibaba in ‘Rusalka.’

The Revolution Orchestra hits musical Main Street

Like many other artistic and cultural activities, it was put on hold in the wake of October 7

MARCH 5, 2024ByBARRY DAVIS
THE REVOLUTION ORCHESTRA: a typically expansively crafted take on the works of George Gershwin.

Jerusalem highlights March 1-7

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

MARCH 1, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN
'Night Will Shine As If Daytime'

Jerusalem highlights February 23-29

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

FEBRUARY 23, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN
Ayala Dangour

‘Monty Python’s Passion’ to play at the Israeli Opera

Few evenings at the opera start with the orchestra tuning its instruments to the sound of a goose being strangled. 'Monty Python’s Passion' is playing in April.

FEBRUARY 18, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN
ACTOR BEN PERRY (left) and conductor Roee Oppenheim in Monty Python’s ‘Passion.’

Jerusalem highlights February 16-22

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

FEBRUARY 17, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN
MATTHIAS MAUTE

Hanoch Levin’s laughing mammoth - opera review

In Levin’s dark comedy, there is something in the nature of living itself that oppresses us. London might have mammoths, good television, and pianos – but all are outside our reach.

FEBRUARY 4, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN
A SCENE from ‘Hanoch Levin – The Opera.’

Northern sounds: Yoel Levi leads Haifa Symphony Orchestra to triumph

“Despite these difficult times,” Levi said, “we brought the public a light, comical opera sure to make people smile and do a body good during troubled days.”

JANUARY 31, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN
YOEL LEVI at the helm of the Haifa Symphony Orchestra