Rinat Shaham
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Rinat Shaham, Israeli born mezzo-soprano has received numerous accolades for her international operatic and concert performances.
She has sung many leading roles with the New York City Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Opera de Montreal, Festival d'Aix en Provence, Glyndebourne Festival, Berlin Staatsoper, and many more. She has also performed as soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Boston Symphony. She has performed with some of the most eminent conductors of our day including Simon Rattle, André Previn , Christoph Eschenbach, Leonard Slatkin, Daniel Barenboim, Simone Young, Antonio Pappano, William Christie, and David Robertson. Her many roles include the title role in Carmen, Charlotte in Werther, Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, Melisande in Pelléas et Mélisande, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Blanche in the Dialogues of the Carmelites.
Rinat Shaham has completed her academic musical studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, USA (both Bachelor of Music and Master of Music).
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 has recorded excerpts from operas by Lully under William Christie for Erato and for Deutsche Grammophon, Maurice Ravel's L'enfant et les Sortilèges with André Previn. Her solo CD of Gershwin and Purcell with the viol group "Fuoco e Cenere" was published by ATMA. She made her feature film debut as the "Jazz Singer" with Harvey Keitel in the Istvan Szabo film, Taking Sides.
