Shulman, Na'ama
No. 65
Voice type: Soprano
Country: Israel
Date of birth: 28 August, 1994
The Israeli soprano was born in 1994, and started her musical education at the age of 7, first playing piano, later taking singing lessons from the age of 13, whilst also studying composition. She completed her studies in 2018, receiving a bachelor’s and master’s degree with honors in classical singing at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (JAMD), studying with Marina Levitt and Ido Ariel. She participated in the Meitar Opera Studio program of The Israeli Opera for the 2017-2018 season. Holding several awards and scholarships, she made her first operatic debut in JAMD, later performing in several roles at the Jerusalem Lyric Opera Studio and the Jerusalem Opera as well. She was invited in 2017 to the Piccolo Opera Festival in Friuli-Venezia Giulia in Italy. Since 2018, she has been a member of the Opera Studio of Staatsoper Hamburg. In recent years, she has performed with conductors such as Kent Nagano and Pier Giorgio Morandi, among others.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Liebesträume – O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst
Strauss: Mein Herr Marquis – Adele’s Laughing Song from Die Fledermaus
Mozart: Guinse alfin il momento... Deh, vieni, non tardar – Susanna’s recitative and aria from Le nozze di Figaro
Semi-final
Massenet: Je marche sur tous les chemins... Obéissons quand leur voix appelle – Manon’s arias from Manon
Menotti: What a curse for a woman is a timid man... Steal me sweet thief – Laetitia’s recitative and aria from The Old Maid and the Thief
Final
Gounod: Je veux vivre dans le rêve – Juliette’s waltz from Roméo et Juliette
Puccini: Quando me’n vo’ soletta per la via – Musetta’s waltz from La bohème
Donizetti: Quel guardo il cavaliere... So anch’io la virtù magica – Norina’s aria from Don Pasquale