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: La Grande Prêtresse and Une Chasseresse in
Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie at the Juilliard Opera; L'Incoronazione
di Poppea (Poppea), Don Giovanni (Zerlina); La finta
giardiniera (Serpetta); Le Nozze di Figaro (Barbarina) in
Jerusalem; Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi) conducted by Fabio Luisi
and L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Nerone) at the Festival della
Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca; Purcell's Dido & Aeneas at
the Julliard Opera in New York, the Opera Holland Park in London, the
Opéra Royal de Versailles and the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Händel's Aminta
e Fillide (Phyllis) 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.
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: Vivaldi's Tamerlano/Bajazet
(Irene) in Piacenza, Modena, Cracow and Beaune with Accademia Bizantina
and Ottavio Dantone; Juditha Triumphans (Vagaus) in Pisa and
Cremona with Carlo Ipata; Handel's Aminta e Fillide (Phyllis)
with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie in Tourcoing; a Baroque
concert at the Darmstadt Staatstheater and Meg's debut in Falstaff in
Busseto for the Verdi Festival in Parma; Maestro Carrara's Voci da
Hebron in Metz and Modena; Il Trionfo del tempo e del
Disinganno in Oslo with Accademia Bizantina; and Battistelli's 7
minuti at the Opéra de Lyon.
Plans include: Handel's Aminta e Fillide at the Brighton Festival and in
Sintra with Les Arts Florissants; Cavalli's Ercole Amante at the
Monteverdi Festival in Cremona; Caldara's Ifigenia in Aulide at
the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik; and Vivaldi's Orlando furioso
at the Opera de Oviedo.
April 2025