Born in Israel, the mezzo Hagar Sharvit started her musical education in Tel Aviv completing her studies in Berlin and New York. In 2011, she joined the Placido Domingo Center at the Palau de la Arts in Valencia and made her European debut in Amelia al Ballo by Menotti under the baton of Placido Domingo. She then sang Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro) and a Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas). She was also Dryade‘s cover (Ariadne auf Naxos) and appears in Cherubini’s Medea conducted by Zubin Mehta.
In 2013, she became a member of Deutsche Oper am Rhein’s Opera-Studio, where she sang roles such as Annina (La Traviata), Sandmännchen (Hänsel und Gretel), several roles in Death in Venice and Grimgerde in Der Ring an einem Abend . She also sang at the Metz Opera the part of Tisbe (La Cenerentola). The same year, she was Smeaton in a concert version of Anna Bolena alongside Edita Gruberova, in Gasteig Munich and Musikverein Vienna.
Then, she was a member of the Oldenburg Theater for two years, where she could be heard in a wide repertoire : Angelina (La Cenerentola), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Alice (Lucia di Lammermoor), Nerone (Agrippina), Mercedes (Carmen), Dejaniera (Hercules), Amastre (Xerxes), Valencienne (Die lustige Witwe), and Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). She also sang her first Irene (Theodora) during a concert at the Victoria Hall in Geneva, before making her debuts as Ottavia (L’Incoronazione di Poppea) at the Budapest Palace of the Arts. She then was Zerlina (Don Giovanni) at the Bregenz Festival.
In addition, she won the First Prize and the Audience Award at the 2015 Das Lied International Song Competition.
In February 2019, she made her debut in the United States as Zenobia (Radamisto) at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
In 2020, she sang Ismene (Armida by Salieri) at the Theater an der Wien with Les Talens Lyriques, under the baton of Chistophe Rousset.
During the season 2021-2022, she was the Third Dame (Die Zauberflöte) at the Israeli Opera, and Albine (Thaïs) at the Tours Opera under the baton of Michel Plasson. She also took part in Hamburg 1786, a very original project with Les Talens Lyriques at the Bachfest Leipzig.
Recently, she was Hänsel in Flensburg and Düsseldorf, Cherubino, the Drummer (Der Kaiser von Atlantis) and Matilda (Das fliegende Klassenzimmer by Ronchetti) in Düsseldorf, as well as Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.
Among her projects : Dvorak’s Stabat Mater in Tours, the Third Nymph (Rusalka) at the Marseille Opera and Leda (Die Liebe der Danae by Richard Strauss) at the Teatro Carlo Felice.
