Liora Maurer

A native of Tel Aviv, Liora Maurer has been an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera since 2009. She has performed as the recitative harpsichordist for The Barber of Seville both in live performances and at the Met’s acclaimed HD broadcast. Her work at the Met has also included Dialogues des Carmélites, new productions of Fedora, La Traviata, Rigoletto, Nico Muhly’s Two Boys, and John Adams’s The Death of Klinghoffer.

She is co-founder and Director of Opera Studies for Canto Vocal Programs, a non-profit organization that has offered singer training programs in France, Romania, Croatia, and the U.S. since 2015.

Previously, she was an assistant conductor at New York City Opera from 1997–2009, and a faculty member of the International Vocal Arts Institute from 1990–2014, collaborating with artists such as Nico Castel, Renato Cappecchi, and composer Carlisle Floyd. At Spoleto Festival USA, she assisted Maestro Julius Rudel with the American premiere of Die Bürgschaft by Kurt Weill, which resulted in an EMI recording. Other coaching and performing credits include Seattle Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Opera Omaha, and New Israeli Opera.

An active performer, Liora has appeared in concert with tenor Roberto Alagna and soprano Aleksandra Kurzak, performing at venues including Saint Pierre des Cuisines in Toulouse, France, Klovićevi Dvori Gallery in Zagreb, Croatia, and halls in Japan, Germany, Italy, and Spain.

She is a graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, and attended the Manhattan School of Music on full scholarship, earning a Master of Music in Accompanying. She is also a recipient of a merit scholarship from the America–Israel Cultural Foundation.