Gan-ya Ben-gur Akselrod

Gan-ya Ben-gur Akselrod (born May 25, 1987 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa ) is an American - Israeli opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Akselrod studied at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Israel and at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music in New York.

In the USA she was heard at Opera Moderne in New York and at the Crested Butte Music Festival in Colorado. In 2010 she made her debut at New York's Carnegie Hall . Akselrod made her European debut in 2011 in Aix-en-Provence . In 2012 she sang at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , and since the 2013/14 season she has been a member of the Theater an der Wien's Junge Ensemble.

Your repertoire includes a. Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas , the first boy in the Magic Flute , Despina in Così fan tutte , Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro , Micaëla in Carmen and the title role in Thaïs as well as Marfa in Rimski-Korsakow's Die Zarenbraut . She sang the bob in Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis at the Opera Moderne in New York. At the Wiener Kammeroper , the second house of the Theater an der Wien, she has played Tamiri in Vinci's Semiramide and Clorinda in La Cenerentola - consistently with positive feedback from the audience and the press . This was followed by the Servilia in La clemenza di Tito and a solo recital.

Akselrod has won a number of awards in the US, Israel, and Austria.

Award

2013 International Hilde Zadek Singing Competition Vienna (first prize)

Web links

• Gan-ya Ben-gur Akselrod at Operabase (engagements and dates)
• Information about the singer on the website of the Theater an der Wien