Graduate of Beit-Zvi, the Academy of Performing Arts. In 2006–2007, with the support of a special grant from Maestro Daniel Barenboim, she studied opera in Berlin and performed the role of Nanetta in Verdi’s Falstaff to rave reviews from the German press.
In 2011 she appeared in the title role of Bizet’s Carmen with the Haifa Symphony conducted by Noam Sheriff. Throughout her career, she has performed with leading orchestras such as the Westchester Philharmonic of New York, the Berlin Symphony, the Italian Symphony, the Bangkok Symphony, the Israel Philharmonic and the Jerusalem Camerata. She has sung under the baton of renowned conductors including Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Noam Sheriff, Avner Biron, Arie Vardi, Andres Mustonen, Lior Shambadal, Frederic Chaslin, Yaron Gottfried and others. Her performances have taken her from Israel to the United States, Russia, China, Thailand, England, France, Italy, Croatia, Poland, Belgium, Germany, Finland and Estonia.
Alongside her stage career, Keren has recorded several albums. In 2006 she released her first CD of songs by Mordechai Zeira with Rafi Kadishson and Dan Ettinger, followed in 2007 by Dark Am I, featuring a fantasy on The Song of Songs by Ella Milch-Sheriff. In 2010 she collaborated with horn player Alon Reuven and pianist Yoni Farhi on Horn Quest, released in Great Britain. In 2013 she recorded her fourth CD with Moshe Zorman and Asaf Roth, In The High Windows. In 2017 she released two more albums: Songs of Wine & Love by Josef Bardanashvili with the Israel Camerata, and Nigun with Daniel Akiva. In 2019 she released DE-GA by Tal-Haim Samnon.
Keren has also appeared on stage in dramatic works. She performed in Hanoch Levin’s Requiem and in the opera And the Rat Laughed by Ella Milch-Sheriff and Nava Semel at the Cameri Theater. She portrayed Job’s wife in Job by Yossi Yzraely alongside Sasson Gabai at the Incubator Theater. At the Tzavta Theatre she played Michal and Batsheva alongside Eli Gorenstein in David in Love by Yehoshua Sobol and Ayala Asherov. At the Hebrew Theater she portrayed the daughter of Shoshana Demari in Or, and Roni Leibovitch’s wife in the musical Haofnobank.
Keren Hadar is the winner of the Schloss Rheinsberg Kammeroper Singing Competition in Germany, and an Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation (ICExcellence) chosen artist.
Photo: Daniel Tchetchik
