OPER KLOSTERNEUBURG Otto Nicolai / Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor - Frau Fluth July - Aug 2013
Talia Or, soprano
After a
successful debut at Teatro all Scala in Frau
ohne Schatten conducted by Marc Albrecht and her acclaimed Marzelline at Teatro
Regio Torino under Gianandrea Noseda in the last season, Talia Or also gives an
important debut in Italy and will sing Woglinde in Wagner's Rheingold in concert performances at the
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Kirill Petrenko in the 2012/13 season.
Under the direction of Tomas Netopil she debuts at Beethoven Orchestra Bonn in
the soprano part of Requiem by Anton
Dvorak. As part of concerts of the Simon Mayr society she sings in Simon Mayr's
Il sogno di Partenope and can be
heard in two one act plays by Jacques Offenbach in Munich. In the Bach Week 2012 she
sings Franz Schubert's Mass A flat major
and Bruckner's Te Deum in the St. Michaelis
Church in Hamburg
in October 2012.
Other obligations
of the previous season included the Hélène d'Egmont in Donizetti's Le Duc D'Alba at Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, Adina in
Elisir d'amore at Opéra de Limoges and
Liszt's Christ at Israel Festival in Jerusalem.
In past seasons
Talia Or made her debuts at the New National Theatre Tokyo and at the Hamburg
State Opera as Despina in Cosi fan tutte.
She also sang the first Flower maiden in a new production of Parsifal at Teatro Regio Torino under
the baton of Bertrand de Billy. At Bregenz Festival, she performed in three roles
- as Sacerdottessa in Aida and in the
acclaimed productions of the operas by Weinberger, The Passenger (Ivette) and The
Portrait (Liza).
Amongst
the recent highlights of her career there rank her acclaimed role debut as
Elizabeth Zimmer in Henze’s Elegy for
young lovers at Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao (Director: Pierre Luigi Pizzi),
her debut as Adina at Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich as well as the First
Flower Maiden under the baton of Lorin Maazel in a new production of Wagner’s Parsifal the Palau de les Arts Valencia.
In June 2008 she gave her debut with Zubin Mehta at the opening concert of the
World-Exhibition in Saragossa
and was in the following engaged by him for a big tour in Israel.
As a
regular at the Bavarian State Opera Munich Talia Or could be heard in Humperdinck’s
Königskindern (Child) under Fabio
Luisi, as understudy for the title-role in Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland, as Voce del Cielo in Don Carlo under Paolo Carignani, as Amour in Orphée et Eurydice under Ivor Bolton and as Young Girl in Moses and Aaron under Lothar Zagrosek.
In concert
she appeared under the baton of Ingo Metzmacher in Bernstein’s Mass at Musikhalle Hamburg. Under
the baton of Peter Schreier she made her debut at Teatro dell Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.
Born in Jerusalem, Talia Or first began
studying violin before deciding to study singing at the Hamburger Hochschule
für Musik and Drama. There, she won the Mozart-Competition as well as the Competition
for sacred song and oratorio in 2002. She was member of the young ensemble of the
Bavarian State Opera Munich and of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz.