{"id":19695,"date":"2025-10-16T11:34:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/cast\/israel-robert-set-designer\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T13:29:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:29:56","slug":"israel-robert-set-designer","status":"publish","type":"cast","link":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/en\/cast\/israel-robert-set-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Robert,  set designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was born in the USA. He is a stage designer for opera and theatre with all leading opera houses and theatre companies around the world. Among the operas he has designed are <STRONG>Katya Kabanova<\/STRONG> (Janacek) and <STRONG>Wozzeck<\/STRONG> (Berg) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, <STRONG>Jenufa<\/STRONG> (Janacek) and <STRONG>Rienzi<\/STRONG> (Wagner) at the Vienna Staatsoper, <STRONG>Der Ring des Nibelungen<\/STRONG> (Wagner), <STRONG>Aida<\/STRONG> (Verdi),<STRONG> Parsifal<\/STRONG> (Wagner), <STRONG>Florencia en el Amazonas<\/STRONG> (Daniel Catan) and <STRONG>Macbeth<\/STRONG> (Verdi) in Seattle, <STRONG>The Fairy Queen<\/STRONG> (Purcell) at the English National Opera and many others including in Tokyo and Paris. He has also designed the set for five world premieres of operas by Philip Glass. He has also designed for the Millennium Park in Chicago. Israel&#8217;s costume drawings are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Obie award. 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