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Italian-Israeli soprano Mayan Goldenfeld is currently based in Bielefeld, Germany, where as of
the 2023/24 season she is engaged as an ensemble member at Theater Bielefeld.

During the 2022/23 season Mayan was part of the Bielefelder Studio at Theater bielefeld, a one
of a kind studio program where she received training not only as an opera singer but also as an
actress as well as in dance. As a member of the Bielefelder Studio, she appeared in opera roles
such as the leading role of Sie in the world premiere of the opera At Your Doorstep/Vor Deiner
Tür, 4th Blumenmädchen in Parsifal, Natalia in Zazà, Ida in Die Fledermaus, as well as a soloist
with the Bielefelder Philharmoniker in concerts such as the New Year's Concert and in Bach's
St. John Passion. She also made her debut as an actress in the role of Zagorka in the critically
acclaimed play Herkunft by Saša Stanišić.

Other performances include Despina in Cosi fan tutte and Matthäus Passion in Amsterdam
Concertgebouw, Erice in L'Ormindo by Cavalli at Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden, the
title role in Stradella's La Circe in Teatro Torlonia, Amor and Damigella in L'incoronazione di
Poppea by Monteverdi, Sangaride in Atys by Lully, Dorilla in La Serva Scaltra by Hasse, the title
role in Jommeli's Didone Abbandonata in a concert for SWR2 at the Schwetzingen Festspiele
and Galatea in Handel's Acis and Galatea.

As a singer with a passion for early music, Mayan has already sung under the baton of early
music specialists such as Sigiswald Kuiken, Alexis Kossenko, Werner Ehrhardt, Andrea de
Carlo and Michael Hofstetter.

With her early music duo "Sull'onde" she won the Bärenreiter Prize at the Göttingen Handel
Competition. She also won the first prize of the Buchmann-Mehta Singing Competition, and is a
finalist of the Froville International Baroque Singing Competition.
The soprano is a scholarship recipient of the German Orchestra Foundation, the Cini
Foundation in Venice, the Friends of Opera Association in Israel, as well as the Berlin Song
Festival, the Buchman-Heiman Foundation and the AICF Foundation, from which she received
the Excellence Scholarship. She is also a Jubilee ambassador for Bärenreiter Verlag, one of the
most important music publishers in the world.

Before completing her Bachelor's degree in music at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in
the class of Efrat Ben Nun, Mayan studied history at Tel Aviv University. She then went on to
complete her master's degree at Brooklyn College Conservatory in New York, where she
studied in the class of Patricia McCaffrey. She is also a graduate of the Baroque Vocal
Excellence Program at the Hochschule für Musik in Mainz, and holds an Advanced Studies
certificate from the institution of Early Music at the Berlin University of the Arts where she
coached with Doerthe Maria Sandmann.