The Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center- Israel Opera

In 1982 the Ministry of Culture and Education decided to cease its funding of the Israel National Opera, but Israeli society quickly felt the void. In 1985, The Council for Arts and Culture created The New Israeli Opera by brokering a partnership between the Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv and the Israel Chamber Orchestra. Uri Offer, the then general director of the Cameri Theatre, was appointed general director of the New Israeli Opera, a post he held for a decade, and Yoav Talmi, who was the music director of the Israel Chamber Orchestra, was appointed music director of the New Israeli Opera.  The New Israeli Opera featured as its first production Dido and Aeneas by Purcell at the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv.