Tomer Zvulun

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Tomer Zvulun (born 1976 in Israel ) is an Israeli opera director who works mostly in North America. Since 2013 he has been the General and Artistic Manager of the Atlanta Opera .

life and work

Zvulun was a medic during his military service in the Israeli army. He studied art and music at the Open University in Tel Aviv, was a visiting scholar at the Opera Institute at Boston University and completed the Executive Program at Harvard Business School . For seven years he was the director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Zvulun was guest conductor at the Seattle Opera (Semele, La Boheme, Eugene Onegin, Lucia di Lammermoor,), the Dallas Opera (Die Fledermaus, La Boheme), in Houston (The Flying Dutchman, Rigoletto), at the Wexford Festival (Silent Night, Dinner at eight), the Cincinnati Opera (Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Flying Dutchman), Wolf Trap Opera (Falstaff, Don Giovanni) and the Israeli Opera (Dead Man Walking, Giulio Cesare).

He has staged at numerous opera houses in North and South America, including Seattle, San Diego, Boston, Dallas, Cincinnati, Buenos Aires and New Orleans, and at educational institutions such as the Juilliard School , Indiana University and Boston University . In 2018, his production of Dinner at Eight was seen at the Wexford Festival Opera in Ireland.

He has been Artistic Director of the Atlanta Opera since June 2013. As a director, he has a wide range, he staged three completely different works in the 2017/18 season: the Wagner opera The Flying Dutchman , the musical Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim and the Holocaust opera Out of Darkness by the US American Composer Jake Heggie .

His collaboration with Harvard Business School resulted in a case study of his leadership at the Atlanta Opera. He documents the innovations and changes he brought with him during his tenure and is currently being taught as part of the curriculum for executive programs at Harvard. In 2018 he was invited to a Ted Talk about innovations in opera entitled “Opera in the Age of the Iphone”.

Zvulun presented a number of baroque operas, but also largely staged the classical repertoire from Mozart to Puccini and Richard Strauss as well as a number of works by contemporary composers such as William Bolcom , Jake Heggie and Kevin Puts .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Israeli Opera: Zvulun Tomer, director , accessed March 29, 2019
  2. ↑ Opera Wire: Double Duty - Tomer Zvulun On Directing & Managing At Atlanta Opera , interview with David Salazar, accessed March 29, 2019
  3. ↑ Operabase: Tomer Zvulun , accessed on March 29, 2019
  4. ↑ Short biography , accessed on March 29, 2019
  5. ↑ AJC: Tomer Zvulun wants to 'infect' Atlanta with a love of opera , accessed on March 29, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Zvulun, Tomer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli opera director
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Israel