In between there’s The Opera Sings Yossi Banai, a vocal tribute to the late great singer/ entertainer/ artist/ songwriter with the participation of his singer son, Yuval on August 3.
The music to be performed at the fifth Israel Opera Festival at the Crusader Fortress in the Old City of Acre ranges from the 18th to the 21st century and takes place August 1 to 4. From the 18th century, we have Gluck’s tender Orfeo et Eurydyce, the story of how master-musician Orfeo loses his beloved to the Underworld where Pluto holds sway, and how he almost, but not quite brings her back to the world of the living, except that Gluck’s opera has a happy ending and contains one of the loveliest arias in all the opera canon – “What Shall I Do Without You, Euridice”? (August 2 and 4) It is an all-Israeli production.
