Italian-Israeli soprano Mayan Goldenfeld is currently based in Bielefeld, where she continues her engagement as a soloist at Theater Bielefeld.
 

This season Mayan is looking forward to numerous role debuts at her home theater such as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Lenio in The Greek Passion and taking on the title role of Alice in Pierangelo Valtinoni’s Alice im Wunderland, alongside reprising the role of Nanetta in Falstaff
and appearing again as an actress in Die Optimistinnen as Tülay.

 

The soprano will also return to work during the 24/25 season with Ensemble I Gemelli with a recording and concert tour of Monteverdi's Vespero della Beata Vergine and will sing the Soprano Solo in Mahler's 2nd symphony under conductor Ilya Ram with the Akademische Philharmonie Heidelberg.
 

Throughout the 2023/24 season, Mayan performed in Theater Bielefeld in roles such as Nanetta in Falstaff, St Marguerite in Honegger's Jeanne au Bûcher, Frasquita in Carmen, and Berta in Il Barbiere di Sevilla. She also performed as a soloist in concerts with the Bielefelder Philharmoniker and in the play Die Optimistinnen, where she embodied the role of Tülay.
 

Guest appearances during the same season include Minerva in Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria with ensemble I Gemelli in Opera National de Bordeaux, Angers Nantes Opéra, Concert d'automne Tours, BFM Geneva, and continued her collaboration with Ensemble La Petite Band in their ongoing tour of Cosi Fan Tutte as Despina.

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.

She appeared in opera roles such as the leading role of Sie in the world premiere of the opera At Your Doorstep, 4th Blumenmädchen in Parsifal, Natalia in Zazà, Ida in Die Fledermaus and sang as a soloist with the Bielefelder Philharmoniker in concerts such as the New Year's Concert and in Bach's St. John Passion. That same season Mayan also made her acting debut in the role of Zagorka in the critically acclaimed play Herkunft by Saša Stanišić.
 

Further highlights from past seasons 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 first prize in 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.

Mayan 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. Furthering her training, Mayan has been working regularly with Abbie Furmansky at her private voice studio in Berlin.

 

Specializing in early music, Mayan is 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.