Career
Shifrin graduated her "B.Mus." degree (with honors) in the Buchmann-Mehta Music Academy at Tel-Aviv University. Her vocal instructors were Prof. Tamar Rachum (Israel) and Kammersängerin Hilde Zadek (Austria) and Mrs. Patricia McCaffrey (NY). Shifrin’s debut with the Israeli Opera was at the age of 25. Among the roles she performed:
- Max and Moritz (conducted by Gil Shochat)
- The second Lady in The Magic Flute (conducted by Dan Ettinger)
- She sang the role of The Woman Who Comforts at the world premiere of the contemporary opera The Child Dreams (adaptation to a Hanoch Levin play)
- Rossini's Cenerentola in a special production
- Mrs. Smith, the leading role in a contemporary opera based upon Eugène Ionesco's “The Bald Soprano”
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