Ella Milk Sheriff

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Ella Milch-Sheriff (Hebrew אלה מילך-שריף, born September 1, 1954 in Haifa ) is an Israeli composer.

Life

Ella Milch is the daughter of Lusia (1920–2008) and Baruch Milch (1907–1989). Her father, who came from Galicia , was a gynecologist and until 1946 - when he was expelled from the city because he was Jewish - he ran the municipal hospital in Opole, Poland, under the pseudonym Jan Zielinski . The parents emigrated to Israel in 1948.

Ella Milch was married to the conductor Noam Sheriff until his death and they have two sons together.

She did her military service, studied singing ( mezzo-soprano ) and composition with Tzvi Avni and graduated from the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University . Milch-Sheriff composes operas, orchestral works, chamber music and vocal music. In 2005 Milch-Sheriff received the Israeli Prime Minister Prize for her compositions. With Nava Semel she composed an opera based on their novel And the Rat Laughs , which received the Rosenblume Prize, the opera was added to the repertoire of the Cameri Theater . In 2010 she wrote another opera with Semel, flight lessons . In 2007 her work for choir and orchestra Dark am I was premiered at the Israel Festival. She wrote a string quartet and in 2008 a piano concerto.

Based on the diary of her father Baruch Milch, which he kept in occupied Poland in 1943/44 when he lost his first wife and young son to the atrocities of Nazi terror, Milch-Sheriff first composed the cantata Ist der , which was premiered in 2003 Sky empty? and published the book A Song for My Father in 2008 . The Staatstheater Braunschweig then commissioned her to compose a chamber opera, which was premiered in 2010 with the libretto by Yael Ronen under the German title Baruch's Silence . The chamber opera was staged again in 2015 in the Stadttheater Fürth by director Bruno Berger-Gorski . The Austrian premiere of Baruch's Silence took place as part of the “EntarteOpera” festival on September 7, 2016 in the Semperdepot / Atelierhaus of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with the soloists Hermine Haselböck (daughter), Duccio Dal Monte (father), Ingrid Habermann (mother) , Christian Schulz (conductor), Beverly and Rebecca Blankenship (direction), Susanne Thomasberger (equipment), Victoria Coeln (lighting design).

On November 14, 2015, the chamber opera Conversation with a Stone, sung in Hebrew and Polish based on a text by Wisława Szymborska, was staged for the first time in the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn . At the Theater Regensburg on 27 January 2018 its opera celebrated The banality of love on the relationship between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger premiere. Savyon Liebrecht wrote the libretto based on her piece Die Banality der Liebe .

Works (selection)

  • (Ed.): Baruch Milch: Can heaven be void? . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2003
  • Noam Sheriff : La follia: variations for symphony orchestra . 1984. Performers of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker , Boris Pergamenschtschikow , Noam Sheriff, Ella Milch-Sheriff, C. Compact-Disk. Sankt Quirin (Tegernsee): Col Legno, 2003 DNB 358440998
  • A song for my father . Biography. Translation Ingeborg Prior . Berlin: construction, 2008
  • Baruch's silence . Libretto Yael Ronen , German by Avishai Milstein. Braunschweig: Staatstheater Braunschweig, 2010
  • The rat laughs: an opera in ten pictures . Hebrew.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Baruch Milch: Is the sky empty? In Galicia through the hell of Nazi terror and a new life in Israel 1907–1989. Hartung-Gorre Verlag, Konstanz 2019, ISBN 978-3-86628-628-3 .
  2. ^ Eva-Elisabeth Fischer: The sky, so empty , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 15, 2015, p. R18.
  3. ↑ Barbara Freitag: Festival Entarte Opera: Touching opera project: What cannot be forgotten. In: kleinezeitung.at. September 10, 2016, accessed August 1, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Bonn / Bundeskunsthalle: Two chamber operas staged by Bruno Berger-Gorski premiered on November 14, 2015, accessed on April 7, 2016.
  5. ↑ Knock on the door of the stone, order the garden - music theater by Ella Milch-Sheriff and Josef Tal in the Bundeskunsthalle , article on the website of the new music newspaper , accessed on April 7, 2016.
  6. ↑ Music theater review : More than a love story ( Memento from March 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) by Michaele Schabel, on: Die Deutsche Bühne , January 29, 2018, accessed on March 12, 2018.
  7. ↑ Come on, show me being! , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , updated on February 2, 2018, accessed on March 12, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Milk sheriff, Ella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milk, Ella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Haifa