NOFAR YACOBI
Management for Italy, Germany, France and United Kingdom and Asia
Chrisni Mendis
chrisni@onlystage.co.uk
Susanna Stefani Caetani
susanna@onlystage.co.uk
biography
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 onwhile singing in a young female choir.
She recently made her debut at Carnegie Hall with the Chamber Orchestra of New York, and performed the roles of Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss) at the Israeli Opera with Asher Fisch, Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) at Volksoper Wien with Omer Meir Wellber, Amore in Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck) at Teatro Massimo Palermo with Gabriele Ferro, and Lisette in La Rondine (Puccini) at Teatro Coccia Novara with Jordi Bernàcer, a co-production with Arena di Verona.
Her upcoming engagements include Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) at the Israeli Opera with Alexander Joel, Mozart’s Requiem with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Julian Rachlin, and Bel canto concerts with the Raanana Symphonette with Keren Kagarlitsky.
Nofar 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 recorded for Disney Pictures the Live Action movie "Beauty and the Beast" released in 2017, as the Hebrew voice for Audra McDonald.
She performed as Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Offenbach) and as Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) at the Gärtnerplatztheater Munich, as Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) in Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade's Komische Oper Berlin co-production at the Israeli Opera, and as Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss) in Paul Curran's co-production at Teatro comunale di Bologna, together with Teatro Massimo di Palermo and Teatro La Fenice.
Nofar performed at Koerner Hall (Toronto), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the the Toronto Jewish Music Festival, as well as 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.
She is the creator of 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.
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.
press
"Brilliant and confident... a convincing actress showing the right brilliance and comic verve... Her singing is easy and precise, secure across the entire range"
Giordano Cavagnino, GBOpera
"Lisette, performed delightfully by soprano Nofar Veronica Yacobi, paired a sweet and light voice with uncommon acting talent — a Lisette who chirped with finesse and flirtatiousness"
Luca Segalla, Rivista Musica
"Nofar Veronica Yacobi captured the lively and spirited temperament of Lisette... her voice struck us as confident across all registers and accurate in the inflections and sensuality required by the role of the sparkling maid."
Ludovico Buscatti, Operaclick