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"Warm recommendation: The current programme of the soloists of the Phoenix Ensemble... contains some of the beautiful arrangements Haydn wrote for Scottish folk songs – essentially sweet music, sung with clarity and consistency by Tamar Kleinberger... the performance we heard last night was of the highest level. The general experience was of intimate entertainment with excellent musicians performing a lovely programme,and that is not an especially common product in this country these days."
(http://www.notes.co.il/omers/50140.asp 12/08, by Omer Shomroni)
"...Israeli-born Kleinberger has a rich background in music, dance and drama, as well as a superb command of English, and she presents a deep understanding of the texts she sings with a silvery, many-faceted voice..."
(Go Jerusalem 12/07, by Pamela Hickman)
"...The soloists soprano singer Tamar Kleinberger, in a successful first performance with the Philharmonic, ... ...also contributed to the complete success..."
(www.habama.co.il 05/09, by Yossi Shiffmann)
"Soprano Tamar Kleinberger performed the solo sections with impressive clarity..."
(Haaretz 12/02, by Hagai Hitron)
"The winner of the second prize... impressed me more. Tamar Kleinberger ... graduate of the Academy in Tel-Aviv, maintained suspense and drama throughout her performance, beginning with the aria of Yael (wife of Heber the Kenite) by Händel and culminating with "On the Wings of Song" by Mendelssohn. Her singing, in some parts, made one forget that this was a competition and that the contestants, albeit their excellence, were not yet fully formed artists..."
(Haaretz 04/00, by Hagai Hitron)
"...But the music is truly wonderful... soprano Tamar Kleinberger was also excellent and sang with great subtlety..."
(Maariv 06/01, by Ora Binur)
"In her album "Una Noche al Lunar", Tamar Kleinberger performs songs for soprano and string orchestra, based on traditional Ladino melodies...  When one reaches the familiar and wonderful track "Adio Querida", even the Ashkenazi among us will be assailed by shivers of yearning for the once young and innocent Israel, moved deeply by the sweeter than honey voice of a soprano of international calibre, and most of all understand that truly great music does not get lost in adventurous fusions such as this."
(Time Out Tel-Aviv, 11-20 October 2005, by Simona Vaserman)
"...Thus began the concert, with Kleinberger's robust, direct performance of this typically Scottish pentatonic melody, cushioned in instrumental textures no less engaging, taking the audience into the freshness and directness of these songs... Kleinberger's strong background in theatre as well as the English language made for a performance of convincing directness... This program provided a rare opportunity to hear these marvelous Haydn Scottish song arrangements and it was an opportunity not to be missed at the hands of such fine musicians..."
("Israel Early Music Scene" group 12/08, by Pamela Hickman)
As Lauretta in Bizet's Le Docteur Miracle
As Lauretta in Bizet's Le Docteur Miracle