Noa Frenkel

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Biography
A versatile artist at home in many musical styles and with an extensive vocal range, Noa Frenkel is a genuine contralto, whose repertoire reaches from the Renaissance to contemporary music.

Focusing on contemporary music, the season 2023-24 includes performances of Rebecca Saunders’ Us Talk Dead Love with Ensemble Nikel at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and allerArt Bludenz, Subnormal Europe at Wien Modern, Chaya Czernowin’s Pnima at Staatstheater Darmstadt, Nono’s Il canto sospeso at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with the NDR Sinfonieorchester as well as the world premiere of a new piece by Kai Kobayashi at the Münchener Biennale and at Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Many composers have written works for Noa Frenkel. She has performed the world premiere of Rebecca Saunders‘ Us Talk Dead Love at the Donaueschinger Musiktage  and Luigi Nono‘s Guai ai gelidi mostri with the Remix Ensemble at the Casa da Musica Porto. She regularly performs at the main festivals in Europe with renowned ensembles such as Ensemble Modern, The Schönberg Ensemble, Klangforum Wien, L’Ensemble Intercontemporain, MusikFabrik, Ensemble Variances, The Israeli Contemporary Players, as well as the SWR Experimental Studio.

Most recent opera appearances include the world premieres of Welcome To Paradise Lost by Jörn Arnecke and Falk Richter at Theater Weimar, Thierry Pécou’s Until the Lions at Opéra national du Rhin and Johannes Kalitzke’s Kapitän Nemos Bibliothek at the Schwetzinger Festspiele, which was also presented at the 2022 Bregenzer Festspiele. She performed Luigi Nono’s Al gran sole carico d’amore at Theater Basel, the role of Her Inner Voice in the world premiere of Heart Chamber by Chaya Czernowin at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Subnormal Europe by Óscar Escudero at the Munich Biennale, at Gare du Nord and at the Philharmonie de Luxembourg,  Gubaidulina’s Stunde der Seele with Windkraft Tirol at the Konzerthaus Wien, the world premiere of Thierry Pécou’s Nahasdzáán with Ensemble Variences at the Opéra de Rouen, Chaya Czernowin’s Infinite Now at Vlaamse Opera and Nationaltheater Mannheim and Hans Zender’s Don Quijote de la Mancha with Klangforum Heidelberg at the Frankfurt LAB.

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