ABOUT NOFAR
Award winning soprano Nofar Yacobi, "brilliant and confident... a convincing actress showing the right brilliance and comic verve", started to play the piano at the age of five and fell in love with opera later on while singing in a female choir.
She recently made her debut with Mahler's 4th Symphony at Carnegie Hall with Chamber Orchestra of New York, under the baton of Salvatore di Vittorio, and performed the role of Zerbinetta in Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos at the Israeli Opera, under the baton of Asher Fisch and direction of Ido Ricklin.
Nofar made her debut at Teatro Massimo di Palermo as Amore in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, and as Lisette in Puccini's La Rondine at Teatro Coccia Novara, a co-production with Arena di Verona. In addition, she made her debut at Volksoper Wien as Königin der Nacht in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte under the baton of Omer Meir Wellber, and at Munich Gärtnerplatztheater with the same role, under the baton of Domonkos Héja. Last summer she made her debut with the role of Oscar in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera in Teatro Mancinelli at the Orvieto Spazio Musica Festival.
Nofar recorded for Disney Pictures the Live Action movie "Beauty and the Beast" released in 2017, as the Hebrew voice for Madame de Garderobe, recorded in the English version by Audra McDonald.
She is the winner of the prestigious Respighi Prize in Performance (2023), the 1st Prize in the Rita Gorr International Opera Contest (2022), and the 1st Prize, Audience Prize and other four special prizes in the Spazio Musica International Singing Competition (2021).
She recently performed the role of Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) in Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade's Komische Oper Berlin co-production at the Israeli Opera, and the role of Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss) in Paul Curran's new co-production at Teatro comunale di Bologna, together with Teatro Massimo di Palermo and Teatro La Fenice.
Her recent engagements include performances at Volksoper Wien, Gärtnerplatztheater, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Israeli Opera, Koerner Hall, Canadian Opera Company, CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), the Eilat Chamber Music Festival, the Abu-Gosh Music Festival, the 21C New Music Festival, the Toronto Jewish Music Festival, and the Spazio Musica Festival.
Nofar created the Musical Solidarity Project, in collaboration with the Italian National Broadcast Company, RAI, involving 500 musicians from 65 countries and 55 cultural institutions worldwide as a musical response to the global Covid-19 pandemic.
She performed with Calgary Opera, the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, the Ra’anana Symphonette Orchestra, the Israel Symphony Rishon-LeZion Orchestra, the Toronto Academy Chamber Orchestra, the Glenn Gould New Music Ensemble and more.
Other recent performances include Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi (Puccini), Gilda in Rigoletto (Verdi) and Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini).
Nofar is an alumna of the Israeli Opera Meitar Studio Program (2015/2017), the Calgary Opera Emerging Artist Program (2017/2018), and the Rebanks Family Fellowship & International Performance Residency Program at The Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory in Toronto (2018/2019).
She graduated from the Buchman-Mehta School of Music at the Tel-Aviv University and received the AICF (America Israel Cultural Foundation), the Buchman-Mehta and the Eli Leon scholarships, as well as the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust and the Azrieli Foundation sponsorships.