Israeli Opera
The New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv was founded in 1985 by Uri Offer and the Israel Chamber Orchestra and opened with Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell at the Cameri Theater . The Israeli Opera has had its own venue in the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center since 1994 and plays around eight operas a year.
Zach Granit is currently the artistic director, and Dan Ettinger is the musical director .
history
The story of opera in Palestine begins in Moscow in 1917 , where the Ukrainian conductor Mordechai Golinkin (1875–1963) dreams of opera in Palestine in an essay Citadel of Art in Palestine . Six years later, Golinkin came to Tel Aviv and began conducting opera performances. Since there was no opera stage in Palestine at that time, he used larger movie theaters. The first premiere was Verdi's La traviata and took place on July 28, 1923.
From 1940 to 1945 the composer Marc Lavry (1903–1967) and the conductor Georg Singer (1906–1980) led the Palestine Folk Opera . Sixteen productions were made by 1945, including the first opera in Hebrew: Dan HaShomer by Lavry, based on texts by Shalom Yosef Shapira and Max Brod .
In November 1945 the American soprano Edis de Philippe (1918–1978) came to Palestine and spontaneously founded the Israel National Opera . Their troupe toured the whole country, played almost every evening and was able to attract a number of musical talents from all over the world as members of the ensemble, including Plácido Domingo from 1962 to 1965 . Some of the productions were conducted by Golinkin. In 1982 the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport decided to stop the subsidies. The ensemble was dissolved.
The founding of the current Israeli Opera is based on the efforts of the Council for Arts and Culture and the director of the traditional Cameri Theater at the time , Uri Offer, who was also appointed first general director of the new institution. Yoav Talmi , chief conductor of the Israel Chamber Orchestra , became the first musical director in 1985 . Today the house has over 18,000 subscribers, also organizes ballet evenings, classical concerts, jazz concerts and children's programs, cooperates on an international level with several opera houses and has firmly established itself as an institution in the country's cultural life.
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The Israeli Opera's repertoire includes the classical repertoire from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice to Britten's Peter Grimes , Billy Budd and his The Turn of the Screw , but also includes operettas such as Csardasfürstin and musicals such as Sweeney Todd and the West Side Story . Richard Wagner's works are not performed by the Israeli Opera. The house also commissions compositions and has already premiered several new operas in Hebrew: Josef , Dear Son of Mine , Half a Moon Tale , A Child Dreams and A Journey to the End of the Millennium . With the exception of the children's operas, all productions are sung in the original language, with surtitles in Hebrew and English.
The ensemble also regularly gives open-air performances , in the 1990s at the Roman Theater of Caesarea Maritima , in 2009 and 2010 at the Sultan's Pool at the foot of Mount Zion and at the Masada Opera Festival on the Dead Sea , where the Israeli Opera 2010 Nabucco , 2011 Aida , 2012 Carmen and presented La traviata in 2014 .
Well-known ensembles have made guest appearances at the Israeli Opera: in the 1990s came the Frankfurt Opera (with A Midsummer Night's Dream ), the Hamburg State Opera (with Belshazzar and Le nozze di Figaro ), and the Deutsche Oper Berlin (with the Magic Flute and Masked Ball ) to Tel Aviv. Numerous Russian ensembles presented a series of standard works from the Russian repertoire at the Israeli Opera: Kirov's opera made five guest appearances at the Israeli Opera, with Mussorgski's Chowanshchina , Strauss ' Salome , Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades , Prokofiev's Fiery Angel and finally Verdi's Falstaff . The Moscow Helikon Opera came to Tel Aviv three times : the first time in 2004 with Rimsky-Korsakov's Die Zarenbraut and Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa , in 2005 with Carmen , and most recently in 2006 with Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov . Finally, in 2013 the Bolshoi Theater brought Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and the Novaya Opera from Moscow to Borodin's Prince Igor .
The Sasha Waltz Company (with Dido and Aeneas ), the Lithuanian National Opera (with Salome ), the Scala (with Aida and the Verdi Requiem ), and the Cape Town Opera (with Porgy and Bess ) also performed in Tel Aviv .
Guest performances
In 2000, the company performed with Strauss ' Elektra and Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finland. In 2003 the ensemble performed La traviata at the Wiesbaden May Festival , and in the 2005/06 season L'elisir d'amore at the Deutsche Oper Berlin . In 2008 the Israeli Opera made a guest appearance at the Opera di Roma with A Journey to the End of the Millennium , in 2012 she returned to Wiesbaden, now with Tosca and A Child Dreams .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ BBC News: Cape Town Opera to go on Israel tour despite Tutu plea , October 27, 2010, accessed July 29, 2016.
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