Noa Frenkel

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Noa Frenkel is a versatile contralto whose extensive vocal range and artistic curiosity span music from the Renaissance to the most cutting-edge contemporary works. Known for her commitment to new music, she regularly collaborates with leading composers and ensembles worldwide.

Highlights of the 2025–26 season include world premieres at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, with the Basel Sinfonietta, and with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. She will also perform Rebecca Saunders’ Us Dead Talk Love with Ensemble Nikel at the Time Spans Festival in New York, Festival d’Automne Paris, and Theater Essen.

Noa Frenkel has premiered numerous works, including Saunders’ Us Dead Talk Love at Donaueschinger Musiktage and Luigi Nono’s Guai ai gelidi mostri with Remix Ensemble. She appears frequently at major festivals across Europe with acclaimed ensembles such as Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, L’Ensemble Intercontemporain, MusikFabrik, SWR Experimentalstudio, and the Israeli Contemporary Players.

Most recent opera appearances include world premieres of Lash by Rebecca Saunders at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Ein Ermordeter aus Warschau with Novoflot at Kunstfest Weimar and subsequently at Musikfestival Bern, WDR Funkhaus Köln and Theater im Delphi Berlin, Shall I build a dam? by Kai Kobayashi at the Münchener Biennale and at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Chaya Czernowin’s Pnima at Staatstheater Darmstadt, 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 and 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 Pécou’s Nahasdzáán with Ensemble Variences at the Opéra de Rouen, 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.

Other opera roles include Woman in Zaide/Adama by Mozart/Czernowin at the Salzburger Festspiele, Frau Ocholowska in the world premiere of Kalitzke’s Die Besessenen at Theater an der Wien, La révérende Mère in François Parls’ Maria Republica for Angers Nantes Opera, Third Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Angers Nantes Opera, Madame Flora in Menotti’s The Medium and Philip Glass’ Akhnaten in Rotterdam, the madrigal opera La Barca for the Nationale Reisopera, Stockhausen’s Sonntag aus Licht at Oper Köln, conducted by Peter Rundel and Pnima by at Oper Stuttgart.

In concert, she has performed with orchestras such as the Orchestre de Paris, MDR Sinfonieorchester, SWR Sinfonieorchester, NDR Sinfonieorchester, and the Israel Chamber Orchestra, in works ranging from Handel’s Dixit Dominus to Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde and Verdi’s Requiem.

She has also worked with Baroque ensembles like Les Arts Florissants and Elyma Ensemble and co-founded the Kassiopeia Quintet, recording all madrigal books of Carlo Gesualdo. Her solo program Solitude in the Age of Mass Media has been presented in the Netherlands, Tel Aviv, and Madrid.

Since 2017 Noa Frenkel holds the position of Professor of Voice at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague.