Zehava Gal is an Israel

Israel

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i-born operatic mezzo-soprano

Mezzo-soprano

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.

Zehava Gal has sung leading roles in both European and North American opera houses and festivals, including La Scala

La Scala

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, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Paris Opera

Paris Opera

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, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Royal Opera House

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, as well as at the Salzburg Easter Festival

Salzburg Easter Festival

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, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, and the Rossini Opera Festival

Rossini Opera Festival

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 in Pesaro. She also sang the title role in Peter Brook

Peter Brook

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's 1983 film, La Tragedie de Carmen.

Her concert performances include the world premiere of Benjamin Lees

Benjamin Lees

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's Symphony No. 4, Memorial Candles for mezzo-soprano, violin and orchestra (Dallas Symphony Orchestra, 10 October 1985),

Since 1994 she has been adjunct associate professor of voice at Westminster Choir College

Westminster Choir College

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 of Rider University

Rider University

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Discography

Zehava Gal's recordings include:

• Antonio Salieri
  Antonio Salieri
  Antonio Salieri was a Venetian classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy....
  
  : Tarare - Recorded at the Schwetzingen Festival
  Schwetzingen Festival
  The Schwetzingen Festival is an early summer festival of opera and other classical music presented each year from May to early June in Schwetzingen, Germany....
  
  , 1988 (DVD). Label: EuroArts-Arthaus Musik
• Rossini: Mosè in Egitto
  Mosè in Egitto
  Mosè in Egitto is a three-act opera written by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, which was based on a play by Francesco Ringhieri, L'Osiride, of 1760....
  
  - Claudio Scimone
  Claudio Scimone
  Claudio Scimone is an Italian conductor.He was born in Padua, Italy and studied conducting with Dmitri Mitropoulos and Franco Ferrara. He has established an international reputation as a conductor, as well as a composer. He has revived many baroque and renaissance works...
  
  , conductor, 1981 (CD). Label: Decca
  Decca Records
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• Claudio Abbado
  Claudio Abbado
  Claudio Abbado, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , is an Italian conductor. He has served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera,...
  
   Conducts Mussorgsky – London Symphony Orchestra, 1992 (CD). Label: RCA Records
  RCA Records
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• Gideon Klein
  Gideon Klein
  Gideon Klein was a Czech pianist and composer of classical music, organizer of cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp.-Life:...
  
  : Oeuvres Instrumentales et Vocales, Fabrice Parmentier, conductor, 1994 (CD). Label: Arion