Gayle Berman – Singer – Israel

Gayle as Deborah the Prophetess/ Photo by Rebecca Kowalsky

Gayle Berman is an internationally recognized soprano, having performed as soloist throughout North America and Europe. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, where she was a Metropolitan Opera Auditions Winner, she went on to perform leading roles with companies such as the Rome Festival Opera, Lake Geneva Opera Festival, San Antonio Opera, Boston Academy of Music and Madison Opera, as well as a soloist with Abendmusik, Choral Arts Society of New York, Chorus Pro Musica, Great Woods Festival, and with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Her operatic roles have included Violetta in La Traviata, the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, the title role in Susannah, Lucy in The Telephone, Mabel in Pirates of Penzance, Olympia in Les Contes D’Hoffmann, Norina in Don Pasquale, Frasquita in Carmen, Nannetta in Falstaff and in Sweeney Todd. Gayle has also served on the voice faculties of numerous American colleges and universities.

Since her aliya in 2008, has continued performing and teaching, was the music director of Raise Your Spirits Theatre for their productions of Judge! Song of Deborah (in which she played the title role) and Esther & the Secrets of the King’s Court, the Revival, and is the director of Kolot Etzion, one of the top women’s choruses in Israel.

She is the author, with her husband Harold Berman, of the book Doublelife – One Family, Two Faiths and a Journey of Hope (www.doublelifejourney.com)