Tichina Vaughn, mezzo soprano, was born in the USA. Her wide repertoire includes Dame Quickly in Falstaff, Eboli in Don Carlo, Azucena in Il trovatore, Amneris in Aida (Verdi), Venus in Tannhauser (Wagner), Cornelia in Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Handel), Herodias in Salome (r. Strauss), Fricka in Die Walküre, Waltraute in Die Götterdämmerung, Erda in Siegfried and Das Rheingold (Wagner), Klytemnestra in Elektra (R. Strauss), Jezibaba in Rusalka (Dvorak), Isabella in L’Italiana in Algiers (Rossini), Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss), Ortrud in Lohengrin (Wagner) and many others. She performs in the opera houses of Dresden (where she is a member of the ensemble), Stuttgart, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Detroit, Helsinki, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Graz, the Bregenz Festival, Trieste, Genova, Rome, the Arena di Verona, Cagliari, Las Palmas, Hong Kong and many others. This is her Israeli Opera debut.