Red Sea Festival Home

International Festival with Maestro Valery Gergiev, will take place in Eilat 14-16 January 2010. Eilat, Israel's southernmost resort, will host for the ninth consecutive year, the highly popular Red Sea International Music Festival from 14-16 January 2010. Maestro Valery Gergiev, one of the world’s leading conductors, will return to the festival as the artistic director, conducting 250 musicians and soloists from the Mariinsky Choir, the Children’s Choir and the orchestra of the Mariinsky Opera Company (Kirov) from St. Petersburg in three concerts. For the first time, the opening concert on 14 January - Verdi’s La Traviata - featuring the orchestra, choir and soloists of the Mariinsky Opera (Kirov) will be conducted by Israeli conductor Dan Ettinger Gergiev will conduct the other concerts: three works by Stravinsky including Les Noces (15 January) and Berlioz’s Les Troyens on 16 January, with the first part offered as a matinee (13:00) and the second performance in the evening at 21:00. The concerts will take place in a specially-built pavilion in the Eilat Port, and chamber music concerts will also take place at the theater in the Isrotel Royal Garden Hotel. The festival, which is sponsored by the Ministry of Tourism, Eilat Municipality, Eilat Hotels Association, Ministry of Culture and the Negev Development Authority, attracts music lovers from around the world who enjoy the unique combination of the finest classical music performed by international musicians and the warm winter sunshine of Eilat. More information:

קבוצת טל תעופה : רכבות אמטרק | אמריקן איירליינס | מאלב ישראל | דיסני אורלנדו | להגיע רחוק