{"id":1619,"date":"2016-11-16T14:34:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T11:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2025-07-28T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:23:00","slug":"culture-and-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/?p=1619","title":{"rendered":"The Jerusalem Opera Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jerusalem Opera Festival, special concerts and flamenco dancing \u2013Dan Hotels expands its connection to the world of culture and enriches vacations with new and contemporary content.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1689\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HEADER123.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1689\" class=\"wp-image-1689 size-full\" title=\"flamenco dancing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HEADER123.jpg\" alt=\"flamenco dancing\" width=\"760\" height=\"500\" data-id=\"1689\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">flamenco dancing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More and more Israelis prefer to spend their vacations at hotels that offer quality cultural activities, a factor that enriches this vacation with contemporary and interesting content.<br \/>\nThese vacations are an added plus offered at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\">Dan Hotels<\/a>, which has always put an emphasis on cultural content.<\/p>\n<p>Recently the chain has expanded and enhanced its connection to the world of culture, offering hotel guests an experience built on the foundations of exclusive music events.<\/p>\n<p>As part of cooperation with the Jerusalem Opera Festival, guests staying at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/JerusalemHotels\/DanJerusalemHotel\/\">Dan Jerusalem<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/JerusalemHotels\/DanBoutiqueJerusalemHotel\/\">Dan Boutique<\/a><\/strong><\/span> received a complimentary pair of tickets with preferred seating arrangements for the \u201cOpera Paradiso\u201d held at the Sultan\u2019s Pool.<\/p>\n<p>This musical performance combined selected scenes from movies like Pretty Woman, Moonstruck, A Room with a View etc. whilst opera soloists together with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra performed, live on stage, the soundtracks of these movies.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, guests were invited to a fascinating tour behind the scenes and a special meeting with soloists before the concert.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/strip-7.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-1\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/strip-7.jpg\" alt=\"strip-7\" width=\"760\" height=\"500\" data-id=\"1690\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Classical music fans staying at the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/TelAvivHotels\/DanTelAvivHotel\/\">Dan Tel Aviv<\/a><\/strong><\/span> were delighted to discover they were invited to a unique musical event, a one-time concert with pianist Ching-Yun Hu, considered one of the world\u2019s best pianists and winner of the prestigious Rubinstein Competition.<\/p>\n<p>During the concert, she hosted the young Israeli pianist Andy Feldbau, an active personality in the international music industry who, in recent years, has participated in concertos with major national and international orchestras.<\/p>\n<p>Guests staying at the hotel during the weekend enjoyed another surprise, Kabbalat Shabbat (welcoming the Sabbath) with singer Ella Rozner who performed excerpts from operas, operettas and musicals in a theatrical and humorous fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Idit Zvi, Artistic Director of the Rubinstein Competition, conducted a master class and, together with radio and television personality Haim Keinan, submitted a program \u201cbehind the scenes of the competition\u201d, combined with video clips and unique music, conducted a master class.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/double-760x500-6.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-2\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1691\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/double-760x500-6.jpg\" alt=\"double-760x500-6\" width=\"760\" height=\"500\" data-id=\"1691\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sounds of music also reached the capital, where guests at the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/JerusalemHotels\/KingDavidJerusalemHotel\/\">King David<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Dan Jerusalem Dan Boutique <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/JerusalemHotels\/DanPanoramaJerusalemHotel\/\">Dan Panorama<\/a><\/strong> hotels in Jerusalem celebrated a weekend of music in collaboration with the Israel Camerata.<\/p>\n<p>The agenda also included a series of concerts in the Spanish Music Festival, held at the YMCA, with participating artists from Spain. The festival incorporated compositions of composers Rodrigo, De Falla, zarzuelas, flamenco music and dance, Ladino romances etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/strip-6.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-3\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1692\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/strip-6.jpg\" alt=\"strip-6\" width=\"760\" height=\"500\" data-id=\"1692\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As part of their vacation package, guests staying at Dan Jerusalem were offered tickets to the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival at the special rate of 100 shekels, for concerts held at the YMCA.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/eDan\/Registration\">e-dan club<\/a><\/strong><\/span> were invited to a daily dress rehearsal in the morning, and every night after the concert, when the adrenaline reached its peak, enjoyed a brief meeting with the performing artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jerusalem Opera Festival, special concerts and flamenco dancing \u2013Dan Hotels expands its connection to the world of culture and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Culture and Pleasure | Dan Hotel`s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Jerusalem Opera Festival, special concerts and flamenco dancing- Dan Hotels expands its connection to the world 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