Joan Anton Rechi, director, was born in Andorra. His opera credits include Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart), L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti), Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea), Werther (Massenet), Un ballo in maschera, Aida, Il trovatore (Verdi), Salome, Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Britten), Madama Butterfly (Puccini), Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saens), Faust (Gounod), Fidelio (Beethoven), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Lohengrin (Wagner) and others. He directed at the opera houses of Barcelona, Madrid, Bogota, Bilbao, Basel, Oman, San Francisco, Oviedo, Oslo, Boston, Parelada, Helsinki, Buenos Aires, Seville, Venice, San Sebastian and others. This is his first work at the Israeli Opera.