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Masada - Dead Sea and Jerusalem Opera Festival
Masada - Dead Sea and Jerusalem Opera Festival
Aida At Masada
Giuseppe Verdi
New Production
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Libretto: Antonio Ghislanzoni
First Performance: The Cairo Opera House, December 24, 1871
First Performance of this production at the Israeli Opera: June 2, 2010
Conductor | Daniel Oren | |
Director | Charles Roubaud | |
Set Designer | Emmanuelle Favre | |
Costume Designer | Denise (Katia) Duflot | |
Sound Designer | Bryan Grant | |
Lighting Designer | Avi-Yona Bueno (Bambi) | |
Choreographer | Jean-Charles Gil | |
Video Designer | Nicolas Topor | |
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Aida | Hui He | |
Kristine Lewis | ||
Radames | Marco Berti | |
Pierro Giulliaci | ||
Amneris | Ildiko Komlosi | |
Marianne Cornetti | ||
Amonasro | Roberto Frontali | |
Alberto Gazale | ||
Ramfis | Paata Burchuladze | |
Il Re | Carlo Striuli | |
The Messenger | Joseph Almog Aridan | |
Priestess | Efrat Ashkenazi |
Chorus Master: Yishai Steckler |
Members of the Tel-Aviv Philharmonic Choir |
The Opera Orchestra - The |
Sung in Italian |
Surtitles in English and Hebrew |
Surtitles: Israel Ouval |
Length of performance: approx. three hours and 30 minutes |
Verdi's grandest opera performed at the footsteps of Mt. Masada with a triumphal march that has never been so impressive. The improbable love story of the Ethiopian princess and the Egyptian army officer will be presented with the majestic mountain as a backdrop.
Synopsis
Dates
Wed 1.6.11 (21:30), Sat 4.6.11 (22:00), Sun 5.6.11 (22:00), Thu 9.6.11 (22:00), Sun 11.6.11 (22:00)
A co production with Les Choragies d'Orange (France)
Opera tickets and packages for Israeli Residents : Bimot 1-599-501-692 or *6226 or at Bimot website
Opera tickets and packages for tourists: Aida at Masada website
For Further Details: Masada - Dead Sea and Jerusalem Opera Festival site
Verdi - Messa da Requiem
The Arena di Verona in Masada
Giuliano Carella, conductor
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Svetla Vassileva | soprano | |
Mariana Pentcheva | mezzo soprano | |
Stefano Secco | tenor | |
Luiz-Ottavio Faria | bass |
Chorus Master: Yishai Steckler |
The Tel-Aviv Philharmonic Choir |
Chorus Master: Leonti Wolf |
The Arena di Verona Orchestra
Fri 3.6.11 (22:00)
The Arena di Verona - official site
Opera tickets and packages for Israeli Residents : Bimot 1-599-501-692 or *6226 or at Bimot website
Opera tickets and packages for tourists: Aida at Masada website
For Further Details: Masada - Dead Sea and Jerusalem Opera Festival site
Andrea Bocelli at Masada
A Gala concert with the renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, performing operatic arias, Italian songs and popular songs.
Marcello Rota, conductor
The Israeli Opera Chorus
The Opera Orchestra, the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion
Sun 12.6.11 (22:00)
Opera tickets and packages for Israeli Residents : Bimot 1-599-501-692 or *6226 or at Bimot website
Opera tickets and packages for tourists: Aida at Masada website
For Further Details: Masada - Dead Sea and Jerusalem Opera Festival site
The Arena di Verona in Jeursalem
Opera Gala
Jerusalem – Sultan’s Pool
Giuliano Carella, conductor
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Svetla Vassileva | soprano | |
Mariana Pentcheva | mezzo soprano | |
Stefano Secco | tenor | |
Luiz-Ottavio Faria | bass |
The Arena di Verona Orchestra
Arias and duets from:
Il trovatore, La traviata, Rigoletto, Falstaff (Verdi)
La boheme, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Turandot (Puccini)
Il barbiere di Sivigllia (Rossini)
and more...
Thur 2.6.11 (20:30)
The Arena di Verona - official site
Opera tickets and packages for Israeli Residents : Bimot 1-599-501-692 or *6226 or at Bimot website
Opera tickets and packages for tourists: Aida at Masada website
For Further Details: Masada - Dead Sea and Jerusalem Opera Festival site
The Opera Jerusalem
by Verdi in Jerusalem
Israeli première
Jerusalem – Sultan’s Pool
Opera in four acts
Libretto: Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaez after the opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata by Verdi and Temistocle Solera.
Premiere: Paris, Opera, November 26, 1847
Conductor | David Stern | |
Director | Moshe Kepten | |
Set Designer | Bambi Friedman | |
Costume Designer | Moni Mednick | |
Sound Designer | Yuval Silberstein | |
Lighting Designer | Eyal Tavori | |
Projections | Shai Bonder | |
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Helene | Ira Bertman | |
Gaston | Scott Piper | |
Roger | Kurt Rydl | |
The Count of Toulouse | Davide Damiani | |
Isaure | Lilia Gretsova | |
Adhemar de Monteil | Nicolai Karnolsky | |
Raymond | Felix Livshitz | |
Officer | Nimrod Grinboim | |
Emir | Noah Briger |
Concert performance with colorful costumes and spectacular lighting
Jerusalem, opera by Verdi
Original version performed in French
International Opera Soloists
Choir of the Transilvania Philharmonic, Cluj
Choir conductor: Cornel Groza
The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA
With surtitles in Hebrew and English
Mon 6.6.11 (20:30)
Synopsis
Opera tickets and packages for Israeli Residents : Bimot 1-599-501-692 or *6226 or at Bimot website
Opera tickets and packages for tourists: Aida at Masada website
For Further Details: Masada - Dead Sea and Jerusalem Opera Festival site
Jerusalem Churches
Church Concerts in Jerusalem
Fri 3.6.11
10 different programs (each program to be performed 3 times)
The Art of the Concerto
Concerti by Handel, Bach, Vivaldi and Corelli
The Israel Camerata Jerusalem
Avner Biron, conductor
Muki Zohar, oboe
St. Andrew's Church 11:00, 13:00
Misa Criolla and other Latin American Liturgical Works
Yotam Cohen, tenor
The kibbutz Artzi Choir
South American Ensemble
Yuval Ben Ozer, conductor
The Lutheran (Redeemer) Church
13:00, 16:00
Hear My Prayer
Choral works by Raminsh, Poulsen, Carter, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Busto
The Ankor Choir (Dafna Ben Yohanan, conductor)
Augusta Victoria Chruch, Mt. Of Olives
11:00
Ave Maria – Choral Works for Girls Choir
Bat Kol Choir
Anat Morag, conductor
David Feldman, counter tenor
Dormition Abbey
16:00
Opera Sancta
Sacred songs by 19th century Italian opera composers (Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini)
Mima Milo, soprano
Ala Vasilevitsky, soprano
Yifat Weisskopf, mezzo soprano
Yulia Rovinski, harp
Tower of David Museum
13:00, 16:00
Meeting Cleopatra – Arias by Handel, Mattheson and Hasse
Hila Baggio, soprano
Shira Raz, mezzo soprano
Baroque Trio directed by Eithan Schmeisser
The Austrian Hospice – The Chapel
16:00
English Baroque – works by Dowland, Purcell and Handel
Yael Levita, soprano
Na'ama Goldman, mezzo soprano
Baroque ensemble directed by Eithan Schmeisser
The Austrian Hospice - Auditorium
11:30, 14:00
From Monteverdi to Bach
The New Israeli Vocal Ensemble
The Sisters of Zion Church, Ein Kerem
13:00
Bach Barndenburg Concerti – No. 3, 4, 5, 6
The Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra
David Shemer, conductor
Vincent de Paul Church
11:30
Mahler - Das Lied von Der Erde (chamber version)
Gil Shohat, conductor
Elysium Ensemble
Ayala Zimbler, mezzo soprano
Gabriel Sadeh, tenor
Henry Crown Symphony Hall
One performance only at 13:30
Opera tickets and packages for Israeli Residents : Bimot 1-599-501-692 or *6226 or at Bimot website
Opera tickets and packages for tourists: Aida at Masada website
For Further Details: Masada - Dead Sea and Jerusalem Opera Festival site