Orchestra

Two operas will be featured in performances at the Jerusalem Theatre.

The concert series is the result of a lifetime of musical search by opera singer and cantor Sharon Azrieli.

The festival focuses on the unique and often dark roles pushed on women in the context of witchcraft, self-expression, and social status.

This year’s festival opens in Jerusalem on July 16 under the aegis of returning artistic directors Michal Vaknin and Itay Mautner, and in the Galilee and Western Negev, through to August 1.

The music Geyer documented was played for the first time in 80 years at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre on June 3-7, 2025.

A wide-ranging slew of acts that will take the Sultan’s Pool stage, in the shadow of the Jerusalem Old City walls, later this week.

Lahav Shani, the IPO’s dynamic, young conductor, seized this period of national reconciliation between Germany and Israel for three special memorial concerts in Munich, Dortmund, and Dresden. 

Omer Avital’s visionary ‘North African Dream’ debuts with the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod at next week’s Meridiano Festival

Guest conductor Manfred Honeck led the orchestra through a program that featured the music of Schulhoff, Haydn, and Strauss.

“The lineup of soloists joining us this year represents the very foundation of Israeli music,” said maestro Tom Cohen.