Architect and opera singer.

Producer, regisseur, set and costume designer.

 

Miryam Singer studied architecture at the University of Chile. Shee began her singing studies at the same university in 1980, with the late maestra Clara Oyuela. After graduating as an architect, she continued her singing studies under the tutelage of Betty Boone in Atlanta, Aila Ernst in Zurich and Sara Corti in Milan.

 

She debuted in Chile in 1984 under the baton of maestro Juan Pablo Izquierdo. She pursued a career in opera and concert, with performances in Switzerland, Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, Israel, Russia and the United States.

 

As a soloist of symphonic music and oratorio, she was the soprano of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, presented in 1990, as a celebration of the country´s return to democracy. She sang with the all the main orchestras in the country. The Municipal Theater of Santiago and the Center for Artistic and Cultural Outreach of the University of Chile became her artistic homes for more than 25 years.

She sang the main works that were performed at the time, such as the Requiem Masses by Mozart, Brahms, Verdi and Briten; oratorios such as Messiah, Salomon and Baltazar, by G.F. Handel; The Bells by Sergei Rachmaninov; Stabat Mater by G.B. Pergoslesi; Joan of Arc at the Stake by Arthur Honegger; Masses by Mozart, Haydn; Bach's Mass in C minor, Beethoven's Solemn Mass, and countless other works from the standard repertoire. She also sang symphonic works by great Chilean composers such as National Awards recipient  Alfonso Letelier, Juan Orrego Salas and Carlos Riesco.

 

 

She sang under maestros Juan Pablo Izquierdo, Irwin Hoffman, Maximiano Valdés, Miguel Patron Marchant, Michelagelo Veltri, Gavor Ötvos, Volker Wangenheim, Fernando Rosas, David del Pino, Francisco Rettig, Rodolfo Fischer, Nicolas Rauss, Eduardo Browne, Jaime Donoso, among many others.

 

She sang at the main cities in Chile; also in Caracas, Bogotá, Mendoza, Montevideo, Pachuca, Mexico, and in many cities in Switzerland. She sang at the Tchaikowsky Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and the Weil Hall of Carnegie Hall of New York.

 

 

In 2009 she decided to close her singing career with the performance of Pictures of the Private Collection of God by composer Aharon Harlap, at the Municipal Theater of Santiago under maestro Víctor Alarcón, and devout herself entirely to producing and teching.

 

 

In 1995, she began a career as a director, set and costume designer and opera producer.

She has directed, among others, Cosi fan tutte, La finta semplice, La finta giardiniera, The marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, and The Abduction from the Seraglio, by W.A. Mozart; La Traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi; Madama Butterfly, Tosca and Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini; Carmen, by Georges Bizet; Don Pasquale and Le Convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali, by Gaetano Donizetti; The merry widow, by Franz Léhar; La jolie parfumeuse, by Jacques Offenbach; Pierrot Lunaire, by Arnold Schoenberg, The Altarpiece of Master Pedro, by Manuel de Falla, The Story of the Soldier, by Igor Stravinsky, among others, and presented the debut in Chile of Orpheus, by Claudio Monteverdi, 400 years after its composition. She has produced operas and open-air concerts, among others, the operas Carmen and The merry widow, as well as the concert Veronica Villarroel sings for Chile, the Atrio de Santiago, in the Plaza de Armas de Santiago, Summer Night, and Great moments of the opera, in the Araucano Park.

 

In 2009, she won a fund from the National Council for Culture and the Arts that brought together three Chilean universities to carry out the first Chilean Chamber Opera Festival. In 2011, she won the fund for the second time and brought together five Chilean universities to hold the Opera Festival for two consecutive years. The most innovative of the projects derived from that initiative was the production of W. A. ​​Mozart's The Magic Flute, engaging the young generation of Chilean opera singers. The production went on tour through seven schools and the presentations included the school´s children's choirs, who, dressed and characterized, went on stage to sing and perform their part in German; an unforgettable experience for about 6,000 people and about 200 children from 9 to 16 years of age.

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She has staged her productions at The Municipal Theater of Santiago, the Theater of the University of Chile, the Municipal Theater of Las Condes, the SODRE Theater of Montevideo, the Hall of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and many theaters throughout the country.