{"id":19481,"date":"2025-10-16T11:32:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/cast\/alden-david-director\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:33:27","slug":"alden-david-director","status":"publish","type":"cast","link":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/en\/cast\/alden-david-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Alden David, director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Was born in New York and has directed numerous operas in Israel including <STRONG>Wozzeck<\/STRONG> (\u200eBerg) for the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, <STRONG>America<\/STRONG> (Shlomo Gronich) and <STRONG>Die sieben Tods\uf895nden<\/STRONG> (Weill). He directs regularly in leading opera houses around the world and his productions include <STRONG>Fidelio<\/STRONG> (Beethoven) at the Metropolitan Opera, <STRONG>Simon Boccanegra<\/STRONG> (Verdi ), <STRONG>Mazeppa<\/STRONG> (Tchaikovsky) and <STRONG>Tristan und Isolde<\/STRONG> (Wagner) at the English National Opera,<STRONG> Elektra<\/STRONG> (R.Strauss) for Welsh National Opera, <STRONG>Tannhuser<\/STRONG> (Wagner) for the Bavarian Staatsoper in Munich,<STRONG> Faust<\/STRONG> (Gounod) for the Vienna Volksoper and many others.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>At the Israeli Opera he directed:<BR><STRONG>La boheme<\/STRONG> (1987, 1989, 1993)<BR><STRONG>Les contes D&#8217;Hoffmann<\/STRONG> (1989, 1991, 1994, 1996)<BR><STRONG>Faust<\/STRONG> (1990, 1992, 1994)<BR><STRONG>Sweeney Todd<\/STRONG> ( 1991, 1993)<BR><STRONG>Idomeneo<\/STRONG> (1992)<BR><STRONG>Joseph<\/STRONG> (1995)<BR><STRONG>Alpha &#038; Omega <\/STRONG>(2001)<STRONG>   <BR>K\u00e1\u0165a Kabanov\u00e1<\/STRONG> (2001)<BR><STRONG>L&#8217;incoronazione di Poppea<\/STRONG> (2002)<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was born in New York and has directed numerous operas in Israel including Wozzeck (\u200eBerg) for the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, America (Shlomo Gronich) and Die sieben Tods\uf895nden (Weill). 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