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Photos: Nadav Yahalomi

Soprano Tal Ganor performs regularly with the Israeli Opera and with orchestras throughout Israel in repertoire ranging from early baroque to contemporary music.

Season 23\24 began with a jump-in debut at Teatro Real Madrid as Dorinda in Claus Guth’s production of Handel’s Orlando under the baton of Ivor Bolton. Later this season she will perform as Amor in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at the Israeli Opera.

Her 2022/23 engagements at the Israeli Opera included Monica in The Medium (Menotti)Zerlina in Kasper Holten’s production of Don Giovanni , Dalinda in David McVicar’s production of Ariodante and a staged Mozart Requiem. More season highlights included a series of performances with the renowned israeli singer-composer Yoni Rechter at Zucker Hall.

In 2021/22 she performed Papagena in Barrie Kosky’s Die Zauberflöte and Cherubino in a new production of Le Nozze di Figaro by David Pountney at the Israeli opera.

Born in Tel Aviv, Ganor graduated from the Buchmann - Mehta School of music in Tel Aviv University, where she won first prize at the 2011 vocal competition. In 2012 she won the Aviv Competitions, The Michal Oren Prize for Voice, and The Meira Geyra Audience Choice Prize.

Between 2015-2017 she was a member of the Israeli Opera’s Meitar Opera Studio. She participated in the 2017 Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (Erismena Residency), the Belcanto Academy “Rodolfo Celletti” in Martina Franca and the IVAI opera programs in Virginia and in Tel Aviv.

More career highlights include Dorinda in Orlando, Belinda in Dido & Aeneas, Tebaldo \ Voce dal cielo in Don Carlo and Pamina in a new production of Die Zauberflöte (in Hebrew) at the Israeli Opera, Zerlina in Don Giovanni with the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Amor in Orfeo ed Euridice and Drusilla \ Amore in L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca, Cephisa \ Ismene in Orpheus (Telemann) with the Orpheus Ensemble, Proserpina \ Ninfa in L’Orfeo (Monteverdi) with Barrocade ensemble, Adina in L’elisir d’amore with Opera in Williamsburg and Despina in Così fan tutte at the Buchmann - Mehta School of Music and an opera for children by Yoni Rechter with the Israel Philharmonic.

Her concert repertoire includes works by Händel, Vivaldi, Buxtehude, Scarlatti, Flavetti, Campra, Clérambault, Mozart, Fago, Pärt and Ivan Fischer.

Ganor performs as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic, Barrocade Ensemble, Israel Camerata, Cappella Mediterranea, Cremona Antiqua, Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Phoenix, Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia.

Ganor has been awarded scholarships by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, the Buchmann- Mehta School of Music, the Israeli Vocal Arts Institute, Eli Leon, Basser and the Martina Franca Rotary Club.

She also creates and collaborates in a variety of interdisciplinary projects with artists in Israel and abroad.