Anna Shafajinskaia, soprano, was born in the Ukraine and currently resides in Canada. Her repertoire includes Abigaille in Nabucco, the title role in Aida (Verdi), Tosca, Turandot (Puccini), La Gioconda (Ponchielli), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Leonora in La forza del destino (Verdi), Maddalena in Andrea Chenier (Giordano), Lisa in Pique Dame (Tchaikovsky), Fata Morgana in L’Amour des trois oranges (Prokofiev), Nedda in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo), Musetta in La boheme (Puccini), Fiora in L’amore dei tre re (Montemezzi), Lubava in Sadko (Rimsky-Korsakov), the title role in Iolanta (Tchaikovsky) and many other roles. She performs regularly in the opera houses of Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Tokyo, Florence, Palermo, Torre del Lago, Montpellier, Nice, Berlin, Frankfurt, Dresden, Dallas, Miami, New Orleans, Detroit, San Diego, Oslo, Helsinki, Beijing, Montreal, Moscow, St. Petersburg and others. This is her Israeli Opera debut.