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    2024-2025 Season

    2024-2025 Season

    Peter Grimes
    Benjamin Britten
    Postponed
    Britten's masterpiece about the outcast downtrodden fisherman is presented in a new production by Mariusz Trelinski (Madama Butterfly)
    Otello
    Giuseppe Verdi
    January-February 2025
    Deceived by a “fake news” conspiracy, Shakespearean hero Otello is driven by jealous rage to murder his innocent wife Desdemona. This grand production is directed by Adrian Noble, one of the greatest Shakespeare directors of our time, in collaboration with the Vienna Staatsoper
    Theodor
    Yonatan Cnaan
    March 2025
    The tremendously successful production, which even made it to the cinema screens, returns to the stage. The story of the visionary of the State of Israel connects between two periods in his life, just before he became a legend. The haunting night journey of the adult Herzl is interwoven with scenes full of joy and hope of young Theodor, until both are forced, each in turn, to forge a new reality
    La bohème
    Giacomo Puccini
    March-April 2025
    Mimi and Rodolfo's love blossoms during a Parisian Christmas Eve in Puccini's beloved opera. The production follows their journey from a chance meeting in a bohemian attic to the festive streets of Paris, bringing to life one of opera's most touching and timeless love stories.
    Ariadne auf Naxos
    Richard Strauss
    May 2025
    Backstage mayhem before the première of a new opera - the story of the mythological Ariadne who belives she is loyal to her beloved but then discovers a few other truths about the essence of love in Strauss' exciting opera.
    Turandot
    Giacomo Puccini
    June-July 2025
    A Chinese princess presents her suitors with three deadly riddles - solve them and win her hand, fail and face execution. When a mysterious prince accepts the challenge, both their fates hang in the balance in Puccini's final and spectacular opera about the transformative power of love.
    Mothers
    David Sebba
    July 2025
    The stories of Hagar and Sarah, Rachel and Leah, Noah's wife and Lot's wife, and additional women from the book of Genesis. After 3,000 years they finally tell the familiar biblical stories through their eyes. A special production with the Gesher Theatre
    Past Performances
    Hanoch Levin - The Opera
    Yossi Ben Nun, Yonatan Cnaan, Yonatan Keret, Ronnie Reshef, David Sebba
    December 16-18, 2024
    Five Israeli composers created a rich and sweeping musical world for some of Hanoch Levin's most beloved songs and sketches. A new operatic production with the sad and happy characters of our greatest playwright.
    L’elisir d’amore
    Gaetano Donizetti
    November 2024
    Nemorino is in love with Adina, but Adina does not think too much of him. In a grandiose sunflower field blossoming on the opera stage, they will both learn a magical lesson about love.
    War Requiem
    Benjamin Britten
    December 2024
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