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Ella Milch-Sheriff/Photo: Daniel Sheriff

ELLA  

MILCH SHERIFF

 

Ella Milch-Sheriff, winner of Lifetime achievement award  by the Israel's composers and authors institute, winner of the Prime-minister prize, is one of Israel's most performed composers.

Ella composed 5 operas, chamber, orchestral and vocal music as well as popular music and solo works. Her music is performed widely through Europe, Israel and the US. (Israel Philharmonic , Berlin, Leipzig, Hamburg, Duesseldorf, Bochum, Braunschweig, London, Manchester,  Vienna, Stockholm, Zurich, Palermo, Boston, etc.)

Her new opera "Alma" about Alma Mahler-Werfel  conducted by Omer Meir Wellber won unanimous premiere success at the Vienna Volksoper.

Opera in Five Acts 

By Ella Milch-Sheriff    

Libretto: Ido Ricklin

The story of Alma Mahler as never told before. She is known as the Wife, the Lover, and the Muse who inspired great artists. For years she was scorned and derided as "The Widow of the four Arts" but little is known of her bereavement. Little is told of the children that Alma bore to the four artists who loved her - and whom she tragically lost, one after the other. Who was the real Alma?

World Premiere: 26 October 2024, Volksoper Vienna.

Conductor: Omer Meir Wellber

Stage director: Ruth Brauer-Kvam

"Alma" by Ella Milch-Sheriff achieved a unanimous premiere success at the Vienna Volksoper..."

BR Klassik, 27.10.24

Walter Weidringer (translated from German)
https://www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news-kritik/kritik-alma-ella-milch-sheriff-annette-dasch-volksoper-wien-100.html

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October 26 2024

"Alma"

Opera in 5 acts

Volksoper Wien

Conductor: Omer Meir Wellber

Libretto: Ido Ricklin

Stage director: Ruth Brauer-Kwam

Premiere: October 26th

Vienna Volksoper

https://www.volksoper.at/volksoper_wien/pressezentrum/pressemeldungen/World_Premiere-_-Alma-_-_October_26-_2024.en.php

 

December 30 2023

"The eternal stranger" (2020)

"Der ewige Fremde" a Monodrama for actor and orchestra

Text: Joshua Sobol

Tonhalle Orchester, Zurich

Eli Danker, actor

Omer Meir Wellber

Wiener Symphoniker

Konzerthaus Wien

December 30th, Silvester concert

https://konzerthaus.at/konzert/eventid/60739

 

March 30,31 2023 ​

"The eternal stranger" (2020)

"Der ewige Fremde"

a Monodrama for actor and orchestra

Text: Joshua Sobol

Stockholm Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Eli Danker, actor

Omer Meir Wellber

 

https://www.srso.se/en/concert/beethovens-fifth

F E A T U R E D   R E V I E W S

The Eternal Stranger, World premiere

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Omer Meir Wellber

February 2020

Leipziger Volkszeitung

"Not only a great experience of loneliness for the composer, but at the same time an appeal for humanity towards strangers and refugees... The work and biography of Ella Milch-Sheriff, daughter of two Holocaust survivors, inseparably intertwine"

The Eternal Stranger, Switzerland premiere

Tonhalle Orchester Zuerich, Omer Meir Wellber

Neue Zuercher Zeitung, January 14, 2023

"...Inspired by a dream of Beethoven...the Israeli composer deals with the uprooting of expellees and refugees in this touching piece..."

The eternal Stranger, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Hamburger Abendblatt, December 2021

"...oriental grace and a very poetic text (spoken and embodied by Eli Danker) take you on a thoughtful journey..."

"The Banality of Love" – Opera by Ella Milch-Sheriff

Libretto: Savyon Liebrecht. Stage Director: Itay Tiran

World premiere: 27 January 2018, Regensburg, Germany

"Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung"

1 February, 2018

Achim Heidenreich

"...Ella Milch-Sheriff has created with virtuosity, a merciless opera...

...an uplifting and disturbing journey, often ironic, about the rift in German-Jewish relations.

...It is a virtuoso operatic evening that raises questions that are not easy to answer."

The Eternal Stranger, American premiere

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Omer Meir Wellber

The Boston Globe/January 6, 2023

Jeremy Eichler

"...Compellingly conceived..." 

The Eternal Stranger, Switzerland premiere

Oper Aktuel,  Kaspar Sannemann  12.01.2023

"… music that is immensely sensitive and beautiful and makes you curious about other works by this composer...With great compositional artistry, Ella Milch-Sheriff has managed to embed the text in the music… one listens admiringly to the intensive expressiveness of the score... 

…for over 50 years, I can hardly remember ever being so moved as I was last night in the Tonhalle Zurich."

"The eternal stranger" Italian premiere

Teatro Massimo, Palermo, 4-5 July 2020

"...The eternal stranger of (directed by) Wellber is enchanting.
A hymn to the human mercy on stage..."

"The Banality of Love" – Opera by Ella Milch-Sheriff

Sueddeutsche Zeitung

28 January, 2018

Eva-Elisabeth Fischer

"Ella Milch-Sheriff's superb opera about the relationship between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger is premiered in Regensburg with great success... A Herculean undertaking which wins a grandiose success..."

The Eternal Stranger, American premiere

Classical Scene

Julian Gau January 7, 2023

"...vibrant, moving drama of The Eternal Stranger…Let us continue to enjoy the imaginative new horizons of Milch-Sheriff..."

The eternal Stranger, UK premiere

BBC Philharmonic, Wellber, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review by Robert Beale

Tuesday, 8 March 2022

"...something extraordinarily powerful and moving...

If that didn’t stir emotions enough, the UK premiere of The Eternal Stranger and the Beethoven pieces was certain to do so..."

"The eternal stranger" Israeli premiere

Israel Philharmonic,  Omer meir Wellber

April 2022

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"The eternal stranger"

for actor and orchestra

Eli Danker, actor

Omer Meir Wellber, conductor

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