The Russian-Israeli dramatic mezzo-soprano Zlata Khershberg-Reith is currently a member of the ensemble at Theater und Orchester Heidelberg. She is a graduate of the Meitar Young Artist Program at the New Israeli Opera, where she studied with Elinor Sohn.
Her repertoire comprises 35 dramatic roles, including Eboli (Verdi’s »Don Carlos«), the title role in Tchaikovsky’s »Jeanne d’Arc«, and Ortrud in Richard Wagner’s »Lohengrin«. In the 2025/26 season in Heidelberg, she can be seen in the title roles of Bizet’s »Carmen« and Piazzolla’s »María de Buenos Aires«, as well as Annina in »Der Rosenkavalier« and as a soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Previous roles include Romeo in Vincenzo Bellini’s »I Capuleti e i Montecchi«, Miss Jessel in Britten’s »The Turn of the Screw«, Countess Geschwitz in Alban Berg’s »Lulu«, Ježibaba in »Rusalka«, as well as Giulietta (»Les contes d’Hoffmann«), Suzuki (»Madama Butterfly«), and Olga in »Eugene Onegin«.
Zlata Khershberg-Reith has also appeared as Dorabella in Mozart’s »Così fan tutte« (director: Floris Visser) at the Bolshoi Theatre, and as Eboli under Marcus Bosch at the Heidenheim Opera Festival and later at Theater Freiburg.
Her extensive concert repertoire has taken her to the Salzburg Festival, the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, and the Lowy Concert Hall in Tel Aviv, where she has performed with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Omer Meir Wellber, and Philippe Pierlot.
Khershberg-Reith is a prize-winner of numerous international competitions (including 3rd Prize at Neue Stimmen 2017, the Jury’s Special Prize at the Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino 2019, and was reaching the finals of the Stanislaw Moniuszko Competition and the Paris Opera Competition. She has been awarded scholarships from the Buchman-Heyman Foundation and the Cohen Scholarship of Tel Aviv University for outstanding achievement.