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    2022-2023 Season

    2022-2023 Season

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    Les Contes d'Hoffmann
    Jacques Offenbach
    November 2022
    Stefano Poda (who directed Faust at the Israeli Opera) returns with a grandiose production of an opera that is three different stories about the three women Hoffmann is unable to love for real. Dan Ettinger conducts a new production about the essence of the artist and his work.
    Madama Butterfly
    Giacomo Puccini
    December 2022
    Dan Ettinger conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s stunning production of Puccini’s poignant tale about the Japanese girl who falls in love with an American naval officer and is willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of her son’s future.
    Aleko - Cavalleria rusticana
    Sergei Rachmaninoff - Pietro Mascagni
    January 2023
    Two short operas about fiery and scorching passion, love and murder in one evening. The gypsy Zemfira is cheating her husband Aleko in Rachmaninoff’s sweeping opera, while Lola cheats Alfio in Mascagni’s tantalizing Sicilian drama.
    Double murder served with hypnotizing music.
    Ariodante
    Georg Friderich Handel
    February 2023
    A story of love and jealousy, intrigues and betrayal presented through Handel's celestial music. A spellbinding production by David McVicar, one of today's most important opera directors and conducted by Baroque specialist Jean-Christophe Spinosi with the Barrocade Orchestra.
    Don Giovanni
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    March 2023
    Numerous women join the never-ending list of Giovanni’s conquests until he finds his inevitable end. Mozart’s masterpiece returns to the stage in Kasper Holten’s sizzling production and its ravishing costumes, set and video design.
    Theodor
    Yonatan Cnaan
    30.11 | 1.12
    A new original Israeli opera focusing on two periods in the life of the prophet of the State of Israel, just before he became a legend. The elderly Herzl’s horrifying night journey is intertwined with scenes of joy and hope of the young Theodor as each in his own turn needs to create a new reality for himself.
    Il trovatore
    Giuseppe Verdi
    June 2023
    Blood, sweat and a blazing fire in Verdi’s larger than life opera featuring a hair-raising tale of revenge and love that cannot materialize. Daniele Abbado makes his Israeli Opera’s directing debut in a grandiose production from the Vienna Staatsoper.
    Requiem
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    July 2023
    The Mozart Requiem in a unique staged version. Lighting designer Nadav Barnea and director Shirit Lee Weiss use light and movement to present Mozart’s immortal opus in an unforgettable staged musical experience.
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