Barno Ismatullaeva, soprano, was born in Uzbekistan. Her repertoire includes the title role in Madame Butterfly (Puccini), the title role in Norma (Bellini), Elizabeth in Roberto D’Overa (Donizetti), Michaela in Carmen (Biza), Tatiana in Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky), Amelia in Simone Boccanegra, Desdemona in Otello (Verdi) and more. She appears in the opera houses of Hamburg, Warsaw, Turin, Bregenz, Amsterdam, Hanover, Innsbruck, Nuremberg, Duisburg, Essen and more. This is her first appearance in the Israeli Opera.