Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was among the featured speakers at the inauguration Sunday night of Tel Aviv’s new $50 million opera house.
During his remarks, Rabin called for a moment of silence to remember the victims of last week’s suicide bus bombing in Tel Aviv that left 23 dead and more than 40 wounded.
Praising Tel Avivians for their restraint and courage in the face of tragedy, Rabin said it was “in this spirit that we inaugurate the opera house today, not forgetting the past, but looking forward toward the future.”
The New Israeli Opera will launch its first season at its new home in the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center with a new production of Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godounov” next week.
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