Born in Israel. He is the music director of the Israeli Opera and the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion and the music director and principal conductor of the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra and also an honorary conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. He was house conductor and assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera and principal guest conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. He was the music director of the Mannheim Opera House. He regularly conducts at all the leading opera houses in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera Covent Garden in London, the Vienna State Opera and the opera houses of Munich, Paris, Berlin and others. He also conducts many leading orchestras in Israel and abroad, and in some of these concerts he also appears as a pianist. He has won scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Israel Institute for the Performing Arts. At the Israeli Opera, he was the choir conductor and house conductor for many years.
At the Israeli Opera, he conducted productions of:
Rusalka (2024)
Requiem – Verdi (2024)
Madame Butterfly (2023) – Opera in the Park
Madame Butterfly (2022)
The Tales of Hoffmann (2022)
Carmen (2022) – Opera in the Park
La Traviata (2022)
Eugene Onegin (2022)
Romeo and Juliet (2021)
The Bat (2021)
Manon (2019) Salome (2019)
Faust (2017)
That’s What They All Do (2007)The Magic Flute (2006)Rigoletto (2006) – Opera in the ParkSamson and Delilah (2005) – Opera in the ParkTosca (2004)Nabucco (2003) – Opera in the ParkAida (2003)Eugene Onegin (2003)Madame Butterfly (2003)Nabucco (2003)Carmen (2002)The Beautiful Helena (2002)La Traviata (2001)La Traviata (2001) – Opera in the SquareNorma (2001)The Bat (2001)The Italian in Algiers (2000)Don Giovanni (2000)The Little Magic Flute (2000)Don Pasquale (1999)
His roles as a singer in the Israeli Opera:The Little Magic Flute : Papageno (1999)The Little Magic Flute : Papageno (1998)La Traviata : The Marquis d’Aubigny (1998)The Tales of Hoffmann : Schlemmle / Hermann (1996)The Love of Three Oranges : Butterfly (1995)A Midsummer Night’s Dream : Fif (Strawling) (1994)The Tales of Hoffmann : Schlemmil / Hermann (1994)La Boheme : Officer (1987)
