The Jerusalem Arts Festival, The Gerard Bechar Center:
4.5.2013 at 20:30, 5.5.2013 at 20:30

Musical director and conductor: David Shemer 
Stage direction and design: Motti Averbuch              

As one of the events of the Jerusalem Arts Festival, the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance is staging Claudio Monteverdi’s opera “L’Incoronazione di Poppea” (The Coronation of Poppea, libretto: Giovanni Francesco Busenello).

On the initiative of the Israeli ambassador to Hungary, Mr. Ilan Mor, the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (Budapest) is engaging in collaboration with JAMD.The joint project will begin with the arrival in Israel of a delegation that will include nine students and two well-known professors from Budapest. Here, they will meet with around the same number of Israeli students and professors. Together, both groups will work on a chamber music program and one chamber orchestra program.

This year’s Art Song Performance Competition will be held in memory of Ada Brodsky. For many years, musician and literary person Ada Brodsky was a senior program editor for “The Voice of Music” classical music station, IBA (Israeli radio). Born in Germany in 1924, she escaped from there prior to the Second World War, immigrating to Israel with her brother. She attended school at the Ben Shemen Youth Village, later studying at the New Jerusalem Conservatory of the Academy of Music.