Michal Grover Friedlander
- Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University Israel
- Ph.D. Musicology
Research Topics
Opera, Voice, Directing
Education and Academic Employment
| 2015 | School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, USA |
| 2012-present | Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University |
| 2010 | Music Faculty, Cremona, University of Pavia, Italy |
| 2008-2011 | Chair, Musicology, Tel Aviv University |
| 2006 | Assistant Professor, Tel Aviv University |
| 2005 | Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA |
| 2002 | Princeton University, Music Department |
| 1996 | Ph.D. Musicology, Brandeis University, Mass., USA |
| 1991 | M.F.A. Musicology, Brandeis University, USA |
| 1985 | B.A. Musicology and Philosophy, Hebrew, University, Jerusalem, Israel |
Research Fields of Interest
- Nineteen to Twenty First Century Opera and Music Theatre
- Voice
- Death and Afterlife in Opera
- Directing
- Opera and Cinema
Selected Publications
- “Voice,” Oxford Handbook of Opera, ed. Helen Greenwald (Oxford University Press, 2014)
- “Transformations of a Killing of a Boy: Weill and Brecht’s Der Jasager,” in Opera’s Obedient Daughter: ed. Sabine Lichtenstein (Rodopi, Textxet series, 2014) Operatic Afterlives (New York: Zone Books, 2011)
- “Prompting Voice in Opera,” Opera Quarterly (Oxford University Press), Volume 27/4 Autumn 2011: 460-480
- Vocal Apparitions: The Attraction of Cinema to Opera (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005)
Honors
| 2016 | Waseda Institute For Advanced Study and Institute for Research in Opera and Music Theatre |
| 2012 | Rector’s excellence in teaching: Tel Aviv University’s hundred best lecturers |
| 2010-2011 | Israel Institute for Advanced Studies and The Israel Science Foundation Grant for an International Conference “Whispering, Prompting, Shadowing: Performed Voices,” Jerusalem |
| 2009-2016 | Yad Hanandiv Humanities Fund Award “Innovation in Teaching,” won jointly by the Musicology Faculty |
| 2009-2010 | Weill Foundation Grant |
| 2005 | Vocal Apparitions: The Attraction of Cinema to Opera (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005): Choice outstanding titles for 2005 |
| 2005 | Vocal Apparitions: The Attraction of Cinema to Opera (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005): Nominated for the Lewis Lockwood Award |
| 2004-2005 | Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, E.T. Cone fellowship |
| 2000 | Princeton University, Princeton USA, NEH summer Fellowship |
| 1992-1993 | Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Lady Davis Fellow, Visiting Research Student |
| 1987-1991 | Brandeis University, Full Fellowship, Ph.D. program, Musicology Dept |
| 1985 | Hebrew University, Jerusalem, B.A. cum laude |
OPERA DIRECTION
| 2005 | Puccini, Gianni Schicchi, Teatro Communale Diego Fabbri, Forli, Italy; Friedberger Musiksommer, Friedberg, Germany |
| 2006 | Ravel, L’heure espagnol , Omaggio a Maurice Ravel, JCE Festival musicale estivo, Teatro Communale Diego, Fabbri, Forli, Italy |
| 2008 | Ravel, L’heure espagnol, Friedberger Musiksommer, Friedberg, Germany |
| 2010 | Brecht and Weill, Der Jasager, Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University |
| 2011 | Founder and Artistic Manager of TA OPERA ZUTA |
| 2011 | Brecht and Weill, Der Jasager, Tmuna Theater, Tel AvivFULBRIGHT SENIOR SCHOLAR AWARD |
| 2014 | The Empress’s Feet, opera by Evelyn Ficarra and Valerie Whittington, Tmuna Theatre |
| 2015 | Satie, Socrates, Elma Art Complex, Zichron Yaakov, Israel |
| 2016 | Satie, Socrates, Institute for Advanced Study and Institute for Research in Opera and Music Theatre at Waseda University, Tokyo |
