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

The new opera ‘Theodor’ shows Herzl's struggles to find solutions

The life of one of Zionism’s greatest champions has been adapted into an opera, showing his hardships as he sought a solution to the plight of Jews.

MAY 1, 2023ByHAGAY HACOHEN
‘THEODOR,’ A new Hebrew-language production at the Israeli Opera.

Jerusalem Highlights April 28-May 4

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

APRIL 28, 2023ByHAGAY HACOHEN
IMBIBE SOME adult beverages at Thinkers (Illustrative).

Yesterday's pop hits get an operatic makeover in Kfar Blum

The three-day event (April 27-29) goes by the name of Just Before the Eurovision, which references the advent of the long-running international song contest.

APRIL 27, 2023ByBARRY DAVIS
DAVID SEBBA and members of the Meitar Opera Studio.

Jerusalem highlights March 31-April 6

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

MARCH 31, 2023ByHAGAY HACOHEN
US ASTROPHYSICIST Dr. Amber Straughn will speak about the James Webb Space Telescope.

Mozart’s 'Don Giovanni' illuminated at Israeli Opera - review

Danish director Kasper Holten has perfected a multi-layered production where the sum is much greater than its parts.

MARCH 27, 2023ByHAGAY HACOHEN
A SCENE from The Israeli Opera’s production of ‘Don Giovanni.’

German opera house fires director who smeared dog poo in critic's face

Marco Goecke confronted Wirbke Huester, a dance critic, in the theater's crowded foyer before wiping the contents of a bag of feces in her face.

FEBRUARY 16, 2023ByREUTERS
Ballerina (Illustrative)

‘With jewels and adornments’, Handel’s ‘Ariodante’ returns to Israeli Opera

When the role of Ariodante was first performed, it was done by a castrato named Giovanni Carestini.

FEBRUARY 12, 2023ByHAGAY HACOHEN
HANDEL’S ‘Ariodante’ comes to the Israeli Opera.

Jerusalem Highlights February 3-9

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

FEBRUARY 4, 2023ByHAGAY HACOHEN
‘LA TRAVIATA’: 2022 Israeli Opera production with Oreste Cosimo as Alfredo.

Die Fledermaus - the bat is landing in Israel

Thrills, spills and fun galore as a popular Strauss operetta rolls into town.

JANUARY 29, 2023ByBARRY DAVIS
Oded Reich and Tal Bergman in the roles of Gabriel von Eisenstein and Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus by Strauss the Younger.

In praise of men who kill: Back-to-back Russian/Italian operas in Israel

The Verismo style, embraced by Rachmaninoff and Mascagni at the beginning of their respective careers, is a true-crime story set at the opera and a change from the older Bel Canto style.

JANUARY 23, 2023ByHAGAY HACOHEN
ALLA VASILEVITSKY as Zemfira in ‘Aleko.’