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“…it was a pleasure to hear [an opera singer] with a unique tone… a rich mezzo-soprano quality in her lower register… exciting coloratura… We are sure to be hearing more from this promising young artist.”
- Meche Kroop, Voce di Meche
Opera singer Kinneret Ely is based in New York City and Tel Aviv. In July 2024, she returned to the Jerusalem Lyric Opera Festival to sing the title role in Giulio Cesare. In April 2024, she also sang the role of Oberto in Alcina in Bucharest, in a co-production with the Jerusalem Lyric Opera Festival, Bucharest National Opera, and Teatrul Evreiesc de Stat, after performing Oberto in the same production in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in July 2023. She also sang Violetta in La Traviata with them in 2018.
She was a young artist with Teatro Grattacielo’s Camerata Bardi Vocal Academy in 2021, where she sang Ilia in Idomeneo alla Breve at the Rhodes International Festival in September 2021. Her performed roles also include Gilda in Rigoletto, Madame Cortese in Il Viaggio a Reims, and Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
She covered the roles of Anna in Catalani’s Loreley and the Fata Azzurra in Respighi’s La Bella Dormente nel Bosco in Teatro Grattacielo’s 25th Anniversary Concert in September 2019. She rejoined Teatro Grattacielo for their film production of Giordano’s Fedora as Un Piccolo Savoiardo, while also covering the role of Dimitri. She was a semifinalist in the Premiere Opera Foundation + NYIOP International Vocal Competition in 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020, and also a semifinalist in the Rochester International Vocal Competition in 2020. Her YouTube channel has more than 60,000 views.
This versatile opera singer performs opera, musical theatre, art songs, Israeli folk songs, pop, and is open to exploring other genres. She sings in thirteen languages and is eager to learn more. She also provides vocal and language diction coaching. As someone deeply committed to the future of the arts and an avid arts consumer, she has worked on fundraising and subscription campaigns for the American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and New York Philharmonic. She continues to be involved with young donor programs of arts organizations.
She maintains an active lifestyle, regularly training in yoga, pilates, and dance. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Special Honors from Hunter College, where she graduated cum laude, designing her own degree in languages, history, and literature through the Thomas Hunter Honors Program. She studied Italian at the Società Dante Alighieri in Siena, French at the Alliance Française in Paris, German at the Goethe-Institut in Berlin, and Russian at the Derzhavin Institute in St. Petersburg.
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