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Il Messaggero daily, May 2018, Italy
“An allegorical opera that starts from the biblical text to face the contemporary topic of the fight between Good and Evil”.
Musica Roma, review by Markus Engelhardt, head of Department of Music History in DHI, June 2018
Yuval’s “Giobbe” (Job) is an artistically fascinating and profoundly impressive message of the music-theatrical against increasing right-wing populism and anti-Semitic defamation worldwide. It is a reminder against forgetting and indifference, but it also offers hope, as did its Old Testament model”.
SKY ARTE, May 2018, Italy
“A visionary score that whirls together voices, sounds and images in an ancient biblical text, a classical performers cast of excellence, ancestral notes of traditional religious cantors linked with a powerful video-art creation. All this is JOB, the new icon-sonic opera by Israeli composer Yuval Avital that sets in the scenographic context of Rome’s Terme di Diocleziano from May 30 to June 1”.