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Caro nome, Gilda's aria, is a refined moment of pure humane naïve innocence. With a very simple melody she still manages to thrill with her precise coloraturas.

This week in A Moment of Opera we are on a date, and this is a very particular date with Dorabella and Guglielmo and the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra.

Tchaikovsky's masterpiece Yevgeni Onegin opens with a beautiful duet in which two sisters, Olga and Tatyana, showcase their opposite character – the one intellectual and introvert, the other extrovert ...

On her wedding day, as she is about to go under the canopy, Zerlina cheats her groom to be with the suave Don Giovanni. Will Masetto ever forgive his bride to be?

Here he comes! The greatest villain of them all! And what an entrance. No one can beat Baron Scarpia's operatic entrance!

Take shelter, close the windows, protect you crystals! She is about to arrive and she is not alone! A special Moment of Opera with the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra and the Queen of the Night singing ...

Diamonds, as well know, are a girl's best friend. And those that Margurite finds turns out to be her greatest enemy. A moment of Opera with Margurite' waltz from Gounod's masterpiece- Faust.

Tali Ketzef does not really need champagne to go wild and revel! All it takes is Bernstien's stunning coloraturas in Cunegonde's ravishing Glitter and be Gay!
Yael Kareth is at the piano and all ...

This time our favorite moment of opera comes with an extra delight as the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra replaces the piano. And this time we watch Count Almaviva seduce the maid Susanna with just two ...

After three years of hope Butterfly finally spots Pinkerton's ship at the Nagasaki port and with Suzuki she is ready to adorn the house with flowers towards his return.

Mimi is mostly looked at as a naïve shy person. But can it be that beneath the surface there is a young woman who only pretends to be shy and actually is toying with us all?

Madame Butterfly is one of the most beautiful operas in the operatic repertoire. It is impossible to argue with that. So why every time we watch t we cringe in our seat? And is Puccini doing this on ...

Each story has its villain. Batman has his Joker; Dynasty has Alexis and in the opera world we have one super villain – The Queen of the Night.

Yevgeni Onegin was the first production we had to stop because of the COVID 19 pandemic. Part of what we missed there can be captured here. With David Sebba and Vladimir Braun singing Gremin's aria.

Introduction to the beginner adulterer. Straight from Mozart's School for Love – Despina is here to provide Adultery 101 as she talks about adulterous men and the appropriate female reaction.

Verdi has several gypsy witches in his operas. So what makes Azucena in Il trovatore unique? Yael Kareth and Shay Bloch present one of Verdi's iconic arias.

Every composer has his own secrets and we are here to reveal them all. Why does the maid Adele laugh at her master? And why does Strauss likes to giggle?

Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) is the ultimate optimistic opera. But beneath the surface, death and despair reign supreme. Why is an opera about a prince, a princess and a bird catcher so dark? ...

She lives for art. She lives for love. Yael Kareth and Ira Bertman take us into Tosca's most famous aria and Puccini's musical secrets.

Jewish tradition calls for merriment at weddings. Don Giovanni takes this literally but he is here only to make the bride happy and himself of course. With Yael Kareth, Daniela Skorka and Oded Rich ...

Opera heroines die as the curtain descends. But what happens when the composer dies before he concluded writing his opera? With David Sebba and Alla Vasilevitsky singing Liu's death aria from ...

Puccini wants to help Lauretta convince her father to allow her marry the man she loves. But how does he do it? With Yael Kareth and Yael Levita singing Lauretta's aria.

The mythological story about the poet Orfeo who loses his wife and receives a second chance from the gods to bring her back to life. An insightful look at the tormented soul of the artist who always ...

A new production of Verdi's "Jewish" opera performed at the open air Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv. Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian King and his armies storm the temple in Jerusalem, set it on fire ...

The story of the young Japanese geisha who experiences an emotional roller coaster ride from which there is no way back. A story of love and passion that ends with the heart breaking suicide of the ...

A tragic tale of lies, betrayals, jealousy and passionate love presented with Puccini's captivating music which brings beauty and humanness to this story in which the three leading characters find ...

Lucia loves Edgardo but her brother forces her to marry Arturo. Lucia obeys yet immediately after the wedding ceremony, she kills her husband and then stuns the audience with a hypnotizing mad scene ...

The love story of the Queen of Carthage and the Trojan Prince who woos her passionately only to leave her to die lonely in her despair. An entire Israeli cast accompanied by the Barrocade Israeli ...

Opera arias and ensembles performed by Israeli Opera soloists Hila Baggio, Tal Bergman, Shay Bloch and Oded Reich with Yael Kareth at the piano.

Opera arias and ensembles performed by Israeli Opera soloists Hila Baggio, Tal Bergman, Shay Bloch and Oded Reich with Yael Kareth at the piano.

The yearend concert of the Meitar Opera Studio – the Israeli Opera's young artists program. Meitar Opera Studio Music director David Sebba accompanies from the piano Tom Ben Ishai, Shira Cohen, Tom ...

Mozart's magical opera about a prince and a princess who find happiness, a bird catcher who finds love and a powerful Queen of the Night who tries to control the universe in a new colorful production ...

An enchanting musical fantasy based on the popular Israeli children songs of all times.

The famous fairy tale about the serving girl who becomes a princess in spite of her stepsisters.

Papageno the bird catcher searches after the princess Pamina in Sarastro's magical kingdom. On his way, he will encounter the Queen of the Night and her three ladies and will even find his own true ...

The famous opera about the siblings who get lost in the forest, find the wicked witch in her house of sweets and eventually survive her evil charms.

The simpleton Nemorino yearns to win the love of Adina. In spite of the amorous intentions of sergeant Belcore, Nemorino eventually wins Adina, all because of the elixir of love!

Figaro, the Count's valet, and Susanna, the Countess' maid, are about to marry. However, the Count is in love with Susanna and has different plans. At the end of the day, though, Figaro and Susanna ...

Gabriel has to serve time in prison but has other plans. He attends a masked ball where he encounters his wife, Rosalinde, but cannot identify her because of her disguise. On the way to a happy end, ...

The popular children television hosts Shuster & Shuster find themselves for the first time in the magical world of the opera.

The new family production of Mozart's enchanting opera presented here with surtitles in Arabic!

Once upon a time, when Tel Aviv was smaller, two families used to share one apartment. So if you came to visit one family you had to ring the bell once, but if you came to visit the other family, you ...

Naomi Shemer gave this canonic Israeli song to the first grade children of Cineret as a very special personal gift. Years have passed and we are proud to give it to you as a special operatic gift!

This is a song that scores of musicians have performed through the ages. So how can we at the Opera do it in a new way? And then it dawned on us that a classical number as this song needs a really ...

Once we heard that King david was thirsty the right thing was to ask Anat, Daniela, Goni and Tal to get some water and help him quench his thrist!

"There is a Place" is one of the most penetrating beauties from the repertoire of Israeli musical theatre shows, written by Dov Seltzer for Kasablan. Here it is performed by Daniela Skorka ...

Dear Son Ephraim is one of the canonic Israeli prayers and also turned into one of the icanonic Israeli songs of all times. If you know the tune then you are hooked at once and if not just listen to ...

Lea Goldberg's is one of the iconic songs of our culture and history, capturing the essence of who we are and where we live.

Celebrating the new Jewish year with a concert featuring the greatest hits of the Israeli songbook with David Sebba conducting the Raanana Symphonette orchestra and soloists Anat Czarny, Tal Ganor, ...

When Alterman and Argov created this wonderful delight about a bass-baritone donkey we could not resist. Under the baton of David Sebba and with the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra Tal Ganor brings us ...

A very operatic rendition of the unique Mozartean quarrel duet between Na'ama, the wife of the cobbler Shalmai and Nofrit, the Egyptian leading wife of King Solomon from the greatest Israeli musical ...

Naomi Shemer translated the Beatles classic Let It Be and gave it beautiful Hebrew lyrics. Eventually she decided to write her own original music to these lyrics.

Even when life is tough, we always know that a new day will dawn and things will get better. 12 Israeli Opera soloists meet the lyrics of Yehonatan Geffen and David Broza's music in a special ...

Lullaby is one of the most poignant and refined treasured of the Alterman-Argov songbook. Here you can enjoy it in a new and very special arrangement by David Sebba, performed by Israeli Opera ...

Let's hope that the next year is full with love, creation and a lot of music!

From their 20s through their 30s and 40s women never stop dancing even when they reach (very) old age.

There is no Rio Carnival this year but there is a lot of carnival music in this song about Venezuela performed by Israeli Opera soloists.

Naomi Shemer's Shuk (market) song takes us on a journey in a typical Israeli market. David Sebba leads from the piano Israeli Opera soloists Anat Czarny, Tal Ganor, Goni Knaani and Daniela Skorka.

The best of the best Israeli songs from all ages in powerful presentations by Israeli Opera soloists Anat Czarny, Tal Ganor, Goni Knaani and Daniela Skorka with David Sebba leading from the piano ...

Opera soloists Hadar Atari, Anat Czarny, Goni Knaani and Yael Levita accompanied by David Sebba and musicians of the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra perform favorite Israeli songs.