Meitar Opera Studio
Meitar Opera Studio
The Young Artists Program of the Israeli Opera
The Meitar Opera Studio is a practical study and performance program for young Israeli opera singers who graduated from any given music academy and who are on the verge of embarking on an operatic career. The major goal of the Meitar Opera Studio is to nurture operatic talent in Israel and to help young opera singers to work in their profession. The Meitar Opera Studio program is aimed at young Israeli opera singers who are willing to hone their craft, further their studies on an ongoing basis and gain stage experience, thus getting ready for a full-fledged operatic career. The actual curriculum of the Meitar Opera Studio is aimed at enlarging the experience of the participating singers and enabling them to gain musical and dramatic knowledge on a personal level and even more so as part of ensemble work.
At the end of the 23 years of the Meitar Opera Studio program, the 100 singers who were part of the program have between themselves performed around 180 roles in various Israeli Opera productions, side by side with participating in numerous concerts and performances in which they performed a wide repertoire. Singers who have graduated from the Meitar Opera Studio program continue to perform in Israeli Opera productions on a regular basis as well as perform with all leading Israeli orchestras all over the country. In the fall of 2005, all members of the Opera Studio participated in a production of Dido and Aeneas, which was performed in Tel Aviv and in Stuttgart. In the summer of 2010, all Opera Studio singers participated in the world premiere of Alice in Wonderland (David Sebba). In the 2018 - 2021 main stage productions of Dido and Aeneas, The Passenger, Cosi fan tutte, Dead Man Walking, The Medium, Mothers, Die Fledermaus, L’Italiana in Algeri and I Capuleti ed i Montecchi, Meitar Opera Studio alumni were the major featured soloists. The world premiere of Theodor by Yonatan Cnaan and Ido Ricklin (2023) featured most Meitar Opera alumni in the cast. Meitar Opera Studio singers also performed in concerts in Switzerland, Great Britain, Australia and South Korea.
Notable Opera Studio productions include Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte, La clemenza di Tito, La finta giardiniera (Mozart), La boheme (Puccini), Werther (Massenet), The Telephone and The Medium (Menotti), La Sonnambula and I Capuleti ed i Montecchi (Bellini), Mothers (Sebba), Don Pasquale (Donizetti) and others as well as the Israeli premieres of The Pirates (Storace) with the Phoenix Ensemble and of La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina (Caccini), La Calisto (Cavalli) and Il primo omicidio (Alessandro Scarlatti) with the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra.
Meitar Opera Studio singers have worked through the years with numerous artists including Rainer Armbrust, Giuliano Carella, Anne Champert, Daniel Cohen, Dan Ettinger, Ashe Fisch, Marco Gandini, Gwyneth Jones, Patricia McCaffrey, John Norris, Mozart de Oliviera, Ido Ricklin, Gadi Roll, Mark Schnaible, David Stern, Alessandro Talevi, Giulio Zappa and many others.
Meitar Opera Studio alumni including Hila Baggio, Galina Benevic, Ira Bertman, David Bizic, Anat Czarny, Noa Danon, Michal Doron, Hila Fahima, Rachel Frenkel, Tal Ganor, Na’ama Goldman, Shiri Hershkovitz, Shahar Lavi, Dana Marbach, Oded Reich, Daniela Skorka, Ana Virovlanski, Nofar Yacobi and others perform regularly leading roles with the Israeli Opera as well as in major opera houses around the world including the Vienna Staatsoper, the Berlin Staatsoper, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the opera houses of Munich, Warsaw, Magdeburg, Dresden, Freiburg, Luzern, Basel, Tokyo, Pesaro and others.
The Israeli Opera thanks the Zvi & Ofra Meitar Family Fund for their ongoing generous support which enables the variegated activities of the Meitar Opera Studio.
The Israeli Opera also thanks the many other individuals and organizations who support the Meitar Opera Studio, first and foremost the Nacht family for giving a special donation for the Leon Nacht scholarships for the 2020/21 season and the Friends of Israeli Opera UK.
The Music Director of the Meitar Opera Studio is David Sebba .
The Artistic Director of the Meitar Opera Studio is Shirit Lee Weiss .
Current members of the Meitar Opera Studio (2024/25) are:
Shlomit Leah Kovalski, Tamara Nishri, Veronika Odintsov, Audelia Shallev, Romi Zelig – soprano
Kirill Odintsov, Roi Witz – baritone
We invite you to support young artists and develop a new generation of outstanding Israeli opera singers.
For donations and further information please contact Shira Raz.
Telephone: +972-3-6927782
Fax: +972-3-6954886
shira@israelopera.org.il
2023-2024
Rania Ateek , soprano
Adi Ezra , tenor
Shlomit Leah Kovalski, soprano
Kirill Odintsov. baritone
Audelia Shallev, soprano
Roi Witz, baritone
Romi Zelig, soprano
2022-2023
Rania Ateek, soprano
Yoav Ayalon, bass
Inbal Brill, soprano
Adi Ezra, tenor
Gal Kohav, mezzo soprano
Shahaf Regev, baritone
Anton Trotoush, tenor
Nika Yankelevich, soprano
2021-2022
Yoav Ayalon, bass
Inbal Brill, soprano
Stas Davidov , tenor
Ksenia Glonty , soprano
Noam Heinz , baritone
Chen Holtzman, mezzo soprano
Yarden Kiperman , mezzo soprano
Gal Kohav, mezzo soprano
Anton Trotoush, tenor
2020-2021
Tom Cohen , soprano
Stas Davidov , tenor
Ksenia Glonty , soprano
Noam Heinz , baritone
Sivan Keren , soprano
Yarden Kiperman , mezzo soprano
Tamara Navoth , mezzo soprano
Karina Radzion , mezzo soprano
Rona Shrira , mezzo soprano
2019-2020
Tom Ben Ishai , soprano
Shira Cohen , soprano
Tom Cohen , soprano
Sivan Keren, soprano
Tamara Navoth , mezzo soprano
Karina Radzion , mezzo soprano
Rona Shrira , mezzo soprano
2018-2019
Tom Ben Ishai , soprano
Veronika Brook , soprano
Shira Cohen , soprano
EfratHacohen Bram , soprano
Pnini Leon Grubner, bass
Liat Lidor , soprano
Yuli Rorman, mezzo soprano
Shaked Strul, soprano
2017-2018
Maya Bakstansky, mezzo-soprano
Veronika Brook , soprano
EfratHacohen Bram , soprano
Zlata Khershberg , mezzo soprano
Pnini Leon Grubner, bass
Liat Lidor , soprano
Yuli Rorman, mezzo soprano
Shaked Strul, soprano
2016-2017
Irene Alhazov, soprano
Maya Bakstansky, mezzo-soprano
Michal Doron , mezzo-soprano
Tal Ganor, soprano
Galina Khlyzova, soprano
Efrat Vulfsons, soprano
Nofar Yacobi, soprano
2015-2016 Hanna Bardos , mezzo soprano Shahar Lavi, mezzo soprano Efrat Vulfsons, soprano
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2014-2015 Tal Bergman , soprano Eitan Drori , tenor Nitzan Yogev-Alon , mezzo soprano
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2013-2014 Tal Bergman , soprano Anat Czarny , mezzo soprano Eitan Drori , tenor Goni Knaani , soprano Nitzan Yogev-Alon , mezzo soprano
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2012-2013 Hadar Atari , soprano Shay Bloch , mezzo soprano Anat Czarny , mezzo soprano Hadar Iticovici , soprano Shiri Hershkovitz , soprano Yael Sayag , soprano
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2011-2012 Hadar Atari , soprano Na'ama Goldman , mezzo soprano Avigail Gurtler , soprano Shiri Hershkovitz , soprano
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2010-2011 Agam Englard-Saar , soprano Avigail Gurtler , soprano Nadav Inbar , tenor Dilya Reinina , pianist Alla Vasilevitsky , soprano
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2009-2010 Efrat Ashkenazi , soprano Hila Fahima , soprano Dilya Reinina , pianist Yifat Weisskopf , mezzo-soprano
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2008-2009 Zohar Agmon ,mezzo-soprano Yair Goren , baritone Maria NIkitin , pianist
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2008-2007 Maria NIkitin , pianist Ilona Toivis , mezzo-soprano
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2007-2006 Yasmine Levi Ellentuck , soprano Yael Levita , soprano Ilona Toivis , mezzo-soprano
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2006-2005 Alexandra Chebat , mezzo-soprano Shirly Hod , soprano Anastasia Klevan , soprano Dana Marbach , soprano
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2005-2004 Shirly Hod , soprano Enas Massalha , soprano
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2004-2003 Eleonar Liveney, mezzo-soprano Ana Virovlansky , soprano
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2003-2002 Noam Talmon , baritone
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2002-2000 Svetlana Sandler , mezzo-soprano |
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
Suor Angelica
2019
La sonnambula
La finta giardiniera
Mothers
The Pirates
2018
La clemenza di Tito
Mozart’s Surprise Box (Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion)
Rusalka for children (Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion)
Children Opera Hour Productions (in Hebrew)
Hansel and Gretel
The Magic Flute
Cinderella
Rusalka
Let’s Sing Opera
Opera Fairy Tales
Le nozze di Figaro
Don Pasquale
Die Fledermaus
Mozart’s Surprise Box
The Snow Maiden
L’elisir d’amore
The Little Mermaid (Rusalka)
2017
Suor Angelica
The Impresario
Magic Flute for children (Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion)
Magic Flute for children (Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva)
2016
The Medium
I Capuleti ed i Montecchi
Cinderella for children (Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion)
2015
Cosi fan tutte (Raanana Symphonette Orchestra)
2014
Die Fledermaus (Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva)
Don Giovanni (Raanana Symphonette Orchestra)
Cosi fan tutte
Magic Flute for children (Ramat Gan Symphony Orchestra)
Magic Flute for children (Raanana Symphonette Orchestra)
2013
Don Pasquale (Raanana Symphonette Orchestra)
La traviata (Ashdod Symphony Orchestra)
The Telephone
The Medium
Suor Angelica
Dido and Aeneas
Magic Flute for children (Israel Chamber Orchestra)
Magic Flute for children (Haifa Symphony Orchestra)
Cinderella for children (Israel Chamber Orchestra)
2012
Die Fledermaus
Werther
2011
La boheme
Die Fledermaus (Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra)
Le nozze di Figaro (Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva)
Le nozze di Figaro for children (Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra)
Le nozze di Figaro for children (Israel Chamber Orchestra)
Mozart’s Surprise Box (Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva)
L’elisir d’amore for children (Israel Chamber Orchestra)
2010
Le nozze di Figaro (Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra)
Mozart’s Women (Haifa Symphony Orchestra)
Mozart’s Surprise Box (Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion)
Cinderella for children (Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra)
Cinderella for children (Israel Chamber Orchestra)
Hansel and Gretel for children (Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra)
Magic Flute for children (Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva)
2009
Magic Flute for children (Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra)
2008
Orpheus Passion
School for Lovers
2007
Hansel and Gretel for children (Haifa Symphony Orchestra)
Magic Flute for children (Haifa Symphony Orchestra)
Cinderella for children (Haifa Symphony Orchestra)
2006
Le nozze di Figaro (Haifa Symphony Orchestra)
Il re pastore (Israel Chamber Orchestra)
Magic Flute for children (Israel Chamber Orchestra)
2005
Dido and Aeneas (Tel Aviv and Stuttgart)
Hansel and Gretel for children (Israel Chamber Orchestra)
2004
Fairies and Witches (Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra)
2003
Love Letters
2002
Le nozze di Figaro
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