{"id":16662,"date":"2025-04-08T17:29:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/cast\/lee-weiss-shirit-director\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T18:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:49:10","slug":"lee-weiss-shirit-director","status":"publish","type":"cast","link":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/en\/cast\/lee-weiss-shirit-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Weiss Shirit, director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><b>Shirit Lee Weiss<\/b> , director, was born in Israel. She directed the musicals <b>Greta<\/b> and <strong>the Space Race<\/strong> (Yonatan Canaan and Valeria Zelikovsky) and <strong>Goldie<\/strong> <strong>Bras<\/strong> (Aviv Koren) at the Bat Yam Musical Festival, where they won first prize in 2014 and 2015. She directed The <strong>Magic Flute<\/strong> (Mozart), <strong>Trouble in Tahiti<\/strong> (Bernstein) and <strong>The Telephone<\/strong> (Menotti) at the Haifa Symphony Orchestra. She directed The <strong>Book of Seville<\/strong> (Rossini) and <strong>The Bat<\/strong> (J. Strauss) at the Israeli Sinfonietta in Beersheba. At the Buchman Mehta School at Tel Aviv University, she directed <strong>The Merry Widow<\/strong> (Lehar) and <strong>The Bat<\/strong> (J. Strauss). At the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, she directed <strong>The Pretender<\/strong> (Mozart) and <strong>Giulio Savino<\/strong> (Sarti).      She directed <strong>Be-te-Klan<\/strong> (Offenbach) and the new opera <strong>Mothers<\/strong> (David Zeva) at the Tel Aviv Opera Fringe Center. She directed <strong>Piero the Sleepwalker<\/strong> (Schoenberg) for the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival. Abroad, she directed Comedy <strong>on the Bridge<\/strong> (Martino), <strong>In the Heart of the Valley<\/strong> (Weill) and <strong>Don Pasquale<\/strong> (Donizetti). She directed many productions at the Israeli Opera&#8217;s Meitar Opera Studio, including <strong>Don Pasquale<\/strong> (Donizetti), <strong>The Medium<\/strong> and <strong>the Telephone<\/strong> (Menotti), <strong>Werther<\/strong> (Messena), <strong>The Bat<\/strong> (J. Strauss), <strong>The Story of Romeo and Juliet<\/strong> (Bellini, Gounod, Bernstein), <b>Don Giovanni<\/b> , <b>So They Do<\/b> and <strong>The Impresario<\/strong> (Mozart).   <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\" align=\"justify\">At the Israeli Opera, she directed productions:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"><b>The Love Potion<\/b> (2024)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"><b>The Book of Seville<\/b> (2022-2024) &#8211; Hebrew<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"><b>Hanoch Levin &#8211; The Opera<\/b> (2024)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"><strong>What do the deer do<\/strong> (2018-2023)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"><b>Requiem<\/b> (2023)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"><strong>The Medium<\/strong> (2022)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"><strong>Mothers<\/strong> (2021)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"><strong>The Medium<\/strong> (2021)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"><strong>The Magic Flute Community Production<\/strong> (2012-2020)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"><b>Orlando<\/b> (2019)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"><strong>The Magic Flute<\/strong> (2019) &#8211; A family-friendly production in Hebrew<br \/>\n <b>The Kidnapping from the Harem in Acre<\/b> (2016)<br \/>\n <b>Opera and children&#8217;s fairy tales for the whole family<\/b> (2013-2015)<br \/>\n <b>Cinderella Community Production<\/b> (2010-2011)<br \/>\n <b>Bluebeard&#8217;s Castle<\/b> (2010)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shirit Lee Weiss , director, was born in Israel. She directed the musicals Greta and the Space Race (Yonatan Canaan and Valeria Zelikovsky) and Goldie Bras (Aviv Koren) at the Bat Yam Musical Festival, where they won first prize in 2014 and 2015. She directed The Magic Flute (Mozart), Trouble in Tahiti (Bernstein) and The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23032,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"creator-type":[128,39],"class_list":["post-16662","cast","type-cast","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","creator-type-director-conductor","creator-type-39"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lee Weiss Shirit, director | The Israeli Opera<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"All the information about Lee Weiss Shirit, director \u2013 The Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv-Yafo. 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