Karin Shifrin
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Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i mezzo-soprano
Mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...
opera singer. She performs in Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and Israel under conductors Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.-Biography:...
, Shlomo Mintz
Shlomo Mintz
Shlomo Mintz is an Israeli violin virtuoso, violist and conductor. He regularly appears with orchestras and conductors on the international scene and is heard in recitals and chamber music concerts around the world.- Awards :...
, Andreas Kowalewitz, David Stern
David Stern (conductor)
David Stern is an american conductor born on May 21, 1963. He is the son of violinist Isaac Stern.- Biography :Having studied at the Juilliard School, he starts his career as an assistant to John Eliot Gardiner, then as principal conductor of Concerto Köln...
, Noam Sheriff and Dan Ettinger, to name a few. From the age of 23, she sang in concerts with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is the leading symphony orchestra in Israel. It was originally known as the Palestine Orchestra, and in Hebrew as התזמורת הסימפונית הארץ ישראלית The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (abbreviation IPO; Hebrew: התזמורת הפילהרמונית הישראלית, ha-Tizmoret ha-Filharmonit...
, and with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Teatro Comunale di Bologna
The Teatro Comunale di Bologna is an opera house in Bologna, Italy, and is one of the most important opera venues in Italy. Typically, it presents eight operas with six performances during its November to April season....
orchestra, as well as other orchestras. Shifrin has been performing in the Israeli opera since 2005.
Career
Shifrin graduated her "B.Mus." degree (with honors) in the Buchmann-Mehta Music Academy at Tel-Aviv University. Her vocal instructors were Prof. Tamar Rachum (Israel) and Kammersängerin Hilde Zadek (Austria). She is currently being mentored by Mrs. Patricia McCaffrey (NY). Shifrin’s debut with the Israeli Opera was at the age of 23. Among the roles she performed:- Max and Moritz (conducted by Gil Shochat)
- The second Lady in The Magic FluteThe Magic FluteThe Magic Flute is an opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue....
(conducted by Dan Ettinger) - She sang the role of The Woman Who Comforts at the world premiere of the contemporary opera The Child Dreams (adaptation to a Hanoch LevinHanoch LevinHanoch Levin , was a prominent Israeli dramatist. He was also a theater director, an author and a poet, but he is best known for his plays.- Early life :...
play) - Mrs. Smith, the leading role in a contemporary opera based upon Eugène IonescoEugène IonescoEugène Ionesco was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist, and one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd...
's “The Bald Soprano”
Among her International performances
- Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, The Marriage of FigaroThe Marriage of FigaroLe nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata , K. 492, is an opera buffa composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro .Although the play by...
(as Marcellina) and Beethoven's 9th Symphony (soloist) (conducted by Zubin Mehta) - Various recitals in Germany, Britain and Scotland
- "Concert for peace" – a duo concert with a Palestinian singer at the "Il Violino Magico" festival in Venice, Italy
- "Concert For Life And Peace" - which took place in Rome, Beth-Lechem and Jerusalem, with Teatro Comunale di Bologna orchestra (conducted by Shlomo Mintz)
- Several concerts in Poland in commemoration of the Holocaust victims (conducted by Omer Welber)
- The Marschallin in Der RosenkavalierDer RosenkavalierDer Rosenkavalier is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Louvet de Couvrai and Molière’s comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac...
and the title role in ArabellaArabellaArabella is a lyric comedy or opera in 3 acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last operatic collaboration. It was first performed on 1 July 1933, at the Dresden Sächsisches Staatstheater....
in Sigriswil, Bern and Bad Ragaz, Switzerland (Conducted by Andsreas Kowalewitz) - Rosina in The Barber of SevilleThe Barber of SevilleThe Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's comedy Le Barbier de Séville , which was originally an opéra comique, or a mixture of spoken play with music...
with the National Symphony Orchestra of Kazakhstan (conducted by Vag Papian)
Some of the Awards Shifrin has received include
- 2002 - Buchman - Mehta music academy vocal competition (Israel) - Finalist and 2nd place winner
- 2003 - Buchman - Mehta music academy vocal competition (Israel) - Finalist and 2nd place winner
- 2003 - Internationaler Hild Zadek Gesangwettbewerb (Austria) - Finalist and 4th place winner
- 2004 - International Hans Gabor Belvedere Gesangwettbewerb (Austria) - Semi-Finalist and special award winner
- 2008 - Iris Adami Corradetti Lyrical International Competition (Italy) - Semi Finalist
- 2009 - Concours international de chant de Clermont-Ferrand (France) - Semi Finalist
In addition, she has obtained the "Hildegard Zadek
Hilde Zadek
Hilde Zadek is a German operatic soprano.After her hometown became Polish after World War I, her parents moved to Stettin in 1920, where Zadek spent her youth; however as a Jew she was forced to leave Germany in 1934, and settled in then Palestine, where she worked as a nurse in Jerusalem, while...
Stiftung", the "AICF" and the "Opernwerkstatt Verena Keller" scholarships for outstanding vocal, musical and creative achievements.
Sources
- Israeli Opera, Artist's biography
- Messer, Tova, "Mozart unites nations", Jerusalem Post, 26 December 2005