Netta Or

Biography

Netta Or was presented to the public at the Salzburg Festival as a "star of the new generation". She had made her successful debut there in 2005 in the rôle of Aspasia (Mozart's Mitridate). There followed a return invitation for the Mozart jubilee in 2006 with a live broadcast on Austrian television, issued on DVD.

After wide general musical training the Israel-born singer studied at the musical academy of Cologne and attended master classes held by Kurt Moll, Kai Wessel and the chief coach of the New York Met, Joan Dorneman. While still a student (she was only 22) she was engaged to take part in the pasticcio Die Plagen at the Karlsruhe Handel Festival. There followed several engagements in the barock repertoire.

From 2003 through 2009, Netta Or was a member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. She could build up her opera repertoire with parts such as Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Marzelline (Fidelio), Adina (L'Elisir d'amore), Musetta (La bohème), Blumenmädchen (Parsifal), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) and Nuri (Tiefland by d'Albert).

Netta Or was also invited at the Teatro Poliziano Montepulciano (Despina in Cosi fan Tutte), at the Schwetzingen Festival (Scarlatti's Telemaco), at the Ludwigsburg Festival (Ezio by Gluck), at the Klagenfurt Opera (Elvira in L'Italiana in Algeri), at the Essen Opera (Donna Elvira), at the Bonn Opera (Serpina in La Serva Padrona) and at the Irish National Opera (Rosmene in Händels Imeneo). In 2008 she made her acclaimed debut as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at the opera festival in Klosterneuburg (Vienna), a part she has performed in Düsseldorf and Leipzig meanwhile. In 2009 se made a sensation at the Schwetzingen Festival in Handel's Ezio (Fulvia).

Highlights for 2009/10 include Cosi fan tutte (Fiordiligi) at the St Gallen Opera and Handel's Faramondo (Clotilda) in concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. Further plans include her first Alcina (title role) in St Gallen as well as various concert tours throughout Europe.

Netta Or has collaborated with conductors Daniele Callegari, John Fiore, Sascha Goetzel, Thomas Hengelbrock, Michael Hofstetter, Alexander Joel, Jun Märkl, Marc Minkowski, Helmut Müller-Brühl, Pierre-Dominique Ponnelle, Martin Sieghart, Stefan Soltesz, Andreas Stoehr, Andreas Spering, Christoph Spering, Hans Wallat and Bruno Weil.

Her discography includes, on CD Mozart fragments Demoofonte (arts music), Gluck's Ezio (Oehms Classic), Gluck's Ezio (coviello classics) and, on DVD, Mitridate, re di ponto (Decca).

Netta Or has been awarded the Young Artists Prize of the City of Düsseldorf in 2008 for the outstanding artistic quality of her performances.

February 2010

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