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SOUND & LITE Magazine, January- February edition, by Douglas B. Cole

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"...KOLOT…was defined by its composer as an "icon-sonic opera", and this term had immediately stroke my curiosity when hearing about it for the first time... Kolot is not only an opera that can be defined as art, but also a complete cultural event.

Avital's virtuosity on the guitar never overshadows the voices, and the extraordinary orchestration and technical coordination gives the viewer the possibility to enter and live for an hour inside the opera itself. The moments of high complexity in which the voices created by the overlap of simultaneous songs in different languages, creates a very good musical and visual impact. The composer's wish of provoking a reflection about the beauty and richness that resides in diversity is fulfilled…"

 

Yuval Avital - Kolot

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