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RINAT SHAHAM
Mezzo-soprano
Israeli born mezzo-soprano, Rinat Shaham has received accolades for her operatic and concert performances internationally. In 2004 she made a spectacular debut at the Glyndebourne Festival in the title role of Carmen and received the highest of praise from the British musical Press. Shaham subsequently made her Covent Garden debut in 2006 as Cherubino in the new production of Le Nozze Di Figaro conducted by Antonio Pappano and staged by David McVicar. She was also heard in this role at the Berlin State Opera under Daniel Barenboim. Shaham made her actual debut in Berlin as Melisande in the revival of Pelleas et Melisande under Michael Gielen and subsequently also returned as Dorabella under Simone Young and Dan Ettinger. Shaham made her debut in Tokyo in 2005 singing her first Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Equally at home on the concert podium Shaham has collaborated with some of the most eminent conductors of our day including Simon Rattle, Andre Previn, Christoph Eschenbach, Leonard Slatin, William Christie, David Robertson and many others.Born in Haifa, Rinat Shaham completed her musical studies in the United States at the Curtis Instute of Music and while still a student there, she was invited to make her professional operatic debut as Zerlina with the Opera Company of Philadelphia. She has since returned to Philadelphia as Charlotte in Werther and as Cherubino, a role she has also sung for the Vancouver Opera, Florida Grand Opera,Opera Pacific and at the New York City Opera. Shaham made her actual New York City Opera and Pittsburgh Opera debuts as Zerlina. She sang her first Dorabella in Jonathan Miller's production of Cosi Fan Tutte, conducted by Robert Spano at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the spring of 2004, and then added Blanche de la Force in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites in the autumn of that year. Since her triumphant reception as Carmen in Glyndebourne, Shaham has repeated the role for the New York City Opera, Minnesota Opera, L’Opera de Montreal, Miami Opera, Minnesota Opera and for her Italian stage debut in 2006 at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. Her European stage debut was as Dido in Dido and Aeneas at the Aix en Provence Festival.
Rinat Shaham made her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the title role of L'Enfant et les Sortileges under Sir Simon Rattle in 2000. Her debut with the London Symphony was in the same work under Andre Previn, followed by a DGG recording. The artist made her New York Philharmonic Debut in 2001 under Leonard Slatkin in Leonard Bernstein's Jeremiah Symphony and debuted in the same work in Ravinia in Christoph Eschenbach and with the Israel Philharmonic under David Robertson She was also invited to sing the piece for the San Francisco Symphony and Chicgao Symphony.. Rinat Shaham appeared with Les Arts Florissants under William Christie in at the Theatres des Champs Elysees in Paris in 2001 and returned to Paris for further concerts and a tour through Europe to concert halls which included the Vienna Musikverein and London's Barbican Hall. The same year Shaham appeared in Birmingham in De Falla's Psyche and a world premiere of Boots of Lead a new work by Simon Holt under Rattle which was also recorded by the BBC for release by NMC Recordings in 2004. In 2003 Shaham also appeared with Rattle with the Orchestra of the Age Enlightenment at the Barbican in London in Haydn's Harmonie Messe , repeating the program in Vienna, Brussels. She debuted with the Chicago Symphony under David Robertson in September of 2004 in a program including Mozart’s famous concert Aria, Ch Io Mi Scordi di te and Bernstein’s Jeremiah Symphony and with both the San Francisco Symphony and Seattle Symphony in the same work in 2005. In June of 2005 Shaham debuted with the Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle in Stravinsky’s Les Noces and Hadyn’s HarmonieMesse. She made her Philadelphia Orchestra debut, also with Rattle, in Ravel’s Sheherezade in 2004.
A winner of numerous vocal competitions, Shaham had the privilege to work closely with Marilyn Horne at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. She was subsequently invited to participate in the Marilyn Horne Foundation Birthday Gala at Carnegie Hall and in 2001 she was presented by the Foundation in several recitals in New York City and Los Angeles. Recitals continue to play a central part in her schedule.
Rinat Shaham will return to the Glyndebourne Festival in 2007 as Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutte, a role she will also perform for the Miami Opera and for her operatic debut in Paris at the Theatre des Champs Elysees in 2008. The artist will be heard as Carmen for her debuts with both the Vancouver Opera and Stuttgart Opera and appears in concert under Christoph Eschenbach with the Orchestre de Paris and Philadelphia Orchestra.Rinat Shaham has recorded excerpts from operas by Lully under William Christie for Erato and a solo CD of Gershwin and Purcell with TheViol Group "Fuoco e Cenere" on ATMA. She made her feature film debut as the "Jazz Singer" with Harvey Keitel in the Isztvan Szabo film, "Taking Sides".
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