The Israeli soprano has made her operatic debut at the age of 18, singing the shepherd (Tosca) in the Israeli Opera. She has since then performed in various international opera houses, among others in Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Semperoper Dresden, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Theater Magdeburg, Festwochen der Alten Musik Innsbruck, State Theater Oldenburg and the Israeli Opera, where she was also a member of the Opera Studio Program; between the years 2012-2014 she belonged to the ensemble of soloists of the opera house of Lucerne, Switzerland.

Among her operatic roles: Norina in "Don Pasquale" (Donizetti); Susanna in "le Nozze di Figaro", Servilia in "La clemenza di Tito", Despina in "Cosi fan tutte" and Zerlina in "Don Giovanni" (Mozart); Morgana in "Alcina", Iole in "Hercules" and Atlanta in "Xerxes" (Handel); Amor in "Orfeo ed Euridice" and Melisse in "Armide" (Gluck); Belinda in "Dido and Eneas" and Spring, Mystery and Nymph in "The Fairy Queen" (Purcell); Eurydike in "Orpheus" (Telemann); Frasquita in "Carmen" (Bizet); Clorinda in "Cenerentola" (Rossini).

Over the years she has collaborated with conductors such as Alessandro de Marchi, Howard Arman, Jörg Halubek, James Gaffigan, Gabriele Ferro, David Stern, Asher Fisch, Philip Pickett, Nir Kabaretti, Sebastien Rouland, Werner Ehrhardt, Christoph Spering and Laurence Cummings, among others.

Dana Marbach has performed as a concert soloist in prestigious venues such as the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Cité de la Musique (Paris), Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), Palau de la Música Catalana (Barcelona), Stefaniensaal Graz, Konzerthaus Vienna, the Berlin Philharmonie and the Köln Philharmonie, as well as in various European music festivals - the Luzern Festival, Festival International de Musiques Sacrées Fribourg, the Kölner Fest für Alte Musik, the Styriarte festival in Graz et al.
In recent years she has sung the soprano roles in numerous concert pieces, including the Great Mass and the Requiem (Mozart), The Creation (Hayden), Johannes Passion, Matthäus Passion, the Christmas Oratorio and B minor Mass (Bach), Marienvesper (Monteverdi), Mass in G (Schubert), Mendelssohn's second Symphony (“Lobgesang”), Requiem (Faure) as well as in many other performances throughout Germany, France, Denmark, Poland and Israel.

Alongside her performances of opera and oratorio, she devotes a considerable part of her time to the genre of Art Song (Lied). Recent appearances in this field include recitals in Hamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart, Cologne, Luzern and Tel Aviv.

Dana Marbach has taken part in various CD recordings, among others "La clemenza di Tito" (Mozart) at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music; and the baroque opera "Flavio Crispo" (Heinichen) in a world premiere in Stuttgart.

Ms. Marbach has been awarded various scholarships by the Ronen Foundation, the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, the Israel Vocal Arts Institute (IVAI), the Buchmann-Heiman Foundation, the Sidonia Bercovich foundation, the Gotthard Schierse Foundation, the Emma Budge Foundation and the Mishkovski Memorial Fund.
 

Dana Marbach is a graduate of the Jerusalem Music Academy; she also holds a Master's Degree in Art Song Studies from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg under the guidance of Lied accompanist Burkhard Kehring, alongside the Israeli pianist Dan Deutsch with whom she specialized in the field of Lieder as a duo.

Among her current and past teachers are Marina Levitt, Efrat Ben-Nun, Abbie Furmansky, John Norris and Thomas Michael Allen. 

Currently residing in Berlin, Germany.

updated Sep. 2020