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Herzl walks the dark streets of Paris after escaping from his tense home and being dragged into a dubious encounter, and a sense of detachment and alienation arises in him. In his wandering night walk, he searches for where he belongs, but this question remains open until the end of the opera. Herzl’s aria manages to convey the deep emotions that arise in him during his wandering away from a sense of home. Maestro Nimrod David Pfeffer dives with us in an operatic moment into the writing of this touching aria, and reveals how composer Yonatan Canaan<\/a> made the orchestra express the depths of Herzl’s soul: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Young Theodor Herzl and his friend Paul want to be accepted into the German Students’ Association, and all they need to prove their loyalty to the association and the German homeland is to engage in a bloody duel. How did Jonathan Canaan compose the two Jewish students who get their first chance to feel like German knights? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[119,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-moment-of-opera","category-vod-for-direct-viewing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTheodor's Aria | The Israeli Opera<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn more about Theodor's Aria \u2013 The Israeli Opera, Tel Aviv-Yafo. 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