Episode 82 - Kinneret Ely

Soprano Kinneret Ely is a freelance opera singer based in New York City and Tel Aviv.

Kinneret covered the roles of Anna in Catalani’s Loreley and the Fata Azzurra in Respighi’s La Bella Dormente nel Bosco in Teatro Grattacielo’s 25th Anniversary Concert in September 2019. She sang the role of Violetta in La Traviata in July 2018 at the Jerusalem International Opera Masterclass (JIOM), and at their gala concert with the Israel Netanya Kibbutz Orchestra, under the baton of Maestro Tiberiu Soare.

Kinneret then rejoined Teatro Grattacielo for their film production of Giordano’s Fedora as Un Piccolo Savoiardo, and covering the role of Dimitri. She also sang in their virtual concert with the Camerata Bardi Vocal Academy in April 2020. She was a semifinalist in both the Premiere Opera Foundation + NYIOP International Vocal Competition, and the Rochester International Vocal Competition in 2020. She also competed in the Bolshoi Young Artists Opera Program Auditions in 2019, the Montserrat Caballé International Competition in Zaragoza in 2014, and was a semifinalist in the 2013 Jenny Lind Competition. Her YouTube channel has more than 29,000 views.

She studied Italian at the Società Dante Alighieri in Siena, French at the Alliance Française in Paris, German at the Goethe Institut in Berlin, and Russian at the Derzhavin Institute in St. Petersburg.