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