Hailed by The
New York Times as a ‘voice of exceptional liveliness and presence’, Shakèd
Bar
is the winner of the “Selma D. and Leon Fishbach” Prize at the
International
Handel Singing Competition in London. Having graduated in singing from the
Jerusalem Academy of Music, she specialized at the Juilliard School in New
York
under Edith Bers. She has won the Juilliard’s Vocal Arts Honors Recital,
which
she performed at Alice Tully Hall in March 2019. She currently furthers
her
studies with Sonia Prina.
Past engagements
include: Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte at the Festival della Valle
d’Itria
in Martina Franca, conducted by Fabio Luisi; Purcell’s Dido &
Aeneas
at the Julliard Opera in New York, at Opera Holland Park in London, at the
Opéra Royal de Versailles and at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Händel’s Aminta
e
Fillide (Fillide) with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie;
Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade (Megacle) at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in
Moscow with Federico Maria Sardelli; Scarlatti’s Il Cambise
(Rosane) in
Kiel, in a new production directed by Alessandro Quarta; Vivaldi’s Argippo
(Sivero) in Bad Kissingen with Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi.
Among other
performances, noteworthy are her successes in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione
di
Poppea as Nerone at the Festival della Valle d’Itria and as Poppea
in
Jerusalem, where she also sang Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and
Serpetta
in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera. Early engagements include La
Grande Prêtresse and Une Chasseresse in Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie
at
the Juilliard Opera.
Also an active
concert artist, she has performed Handel’s Messiah at New York’s
Carnegie Hall, Mozart’s Requiem at the Festival della Valle
d’Itria in
Martina Franca, and a series of concerts at the New York Song Festival,
the
Handel Festival in London and in Israel with the Israel Camera Orchestra.
Most recently she took part in the productions of Vivaldi’s Tamerlano/Bajazet
(Irene) in Piacenza,
Modena and Krakow with Accademia Bizantina and Ottavio Dantone; Juditha
Triumphans
(Vagaus) in Pisa and Cremona with Carlo Ipata; Handel’s Aminta e
Fillide
(Fillide) with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie in Tourcoing; a
baroque concert at the Staatstheater in Darmstadt and Mag in Falstaff
in Busseto for the Festival Verdi in Parma.
Plans include: the debut of the opera Hebron composed by Maestro
Carrara in Metz and later in Modena and Handel's Il Trionfo del tempo e
del disinganno in Oslo with Accademia Bizantina.
January 2024