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Dana Marbach, soprano
The Israeli soprano Dana Marbach has performed different operatic roles in opera houses in Israel and abroad. Among the roles she sang in Italy are Zerlina ("Don Giovanni") at the Teatro Massimo (Palermo) and the Heavenly Voice ("Don Carlo") at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. At the Israeli Opera, she sang the roles of Melisse ("Armide"/Gluck) and the Heavenly Voice ("Don Carlo"); she has collaborated with such conductors as Gabriele Ferro, Asher Fisch, Sebastien Rouland and others. Among her most recent stage engagements are the role of Euridice in "Orpheus" (Telemann) at the Theater Magdeburg and in St.-Quentin-en-Yvelines, near Paris, with the "Opera Fuoco" Orchestra, conducted by David Stern; Atalanta in a concert performance of "Xerxes" (Handel) in the Berlin Philharmonie; the roles of Joy/The Lady/Shepherdess in "Don Quixote" (Purcell & Eccles) in the Cité de la Musique, Paris; and those of Belinda and Peace in a world-exclusive production of "Dido & Aeneas 1700" (Purcell, Eccles), which has been performed all across Europe - both productions with the "New London Consort" under the baton of Philip Pickett. The soprano is a graduate of the Israeli Opera Young Artists Program (Opera Studio), where she has sung many operatic roles, among which Pamina, Papagena, Amor, Barbarina, Serpina and more. In 2006, she sang the leading role of Susanna in a production of "Le nozze di Figaro" with the Haifa Symphony Orchestra. Dana Marbach also performs regularly as a concert soloist in Israel as well as around Europe, and has sung under the baton of Philip Pickett, Laurence Cummings, Roy Goodman, Nir Kabaretti and Pawel Osuchowski, among others. Among her recent concert engagements are the soprano parts in "Dixit Dominus" (Handel) at the Festiwal Muzyki Dawnej, Szczecin, Poland; Bach’s B Minor Mass with the Sønderborg Symphony Orchestra, the soprano parts in "Israel in Egypt" (Handel) with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra; and Handel’s "Messiah" at the Styriarte Festival in Graz, Austria, among others. Dana Marbach is also a dedicated lied singer. Among her most recent performances in this field was a lied recital in the Musikinstrumentenmuseum beside the Berlin Philharmonie, as well as various recitals in Hamburg, Sylt and Berlin. Ms. Marbach has been awarded various scholarships by the Ronen Foundation, the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, the Israel Vocal Arts Institute (IVAI), the Buchmann-Heiman Foundation and the Sidonia Bercovich foundation. Dana Marbach is a graduate of the Jerusalem Music Academy. She is currently completing a Master's Degree in Art Song Studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg with the Israeli pianist Dan Deutsch, with whom she specializes as a duo under the guidance of lied accompanist Burkhard Kehring. Among her current and past teachers are Marina Levitt, Efrat Ben-Nun, Abbie Furmansky, John Norris and Thomas Michael Allen. Residing in Berlin as of 2007. |