Sapir Rosenblatt is a producer, audio engineer, and musician. She started at New York Public Radio as an intern for WQXR, where she edited and helped produce shows such as Reflections From the Keyboard, Young Artists Showcase and New Standards. She also produced a special project for Women’s History Month called Kids React to Women Composers and worked as a production assistant on the radio documentary Making Belafonte: An Appreciation with Terrance McKnight. She has worked on both seasons of The Open Ears Project.
Alongside working at NYPR, Sapir is a proficient singer and a composer. She was part of the vocal trio ‘The Hazelnuts’ as a lead singer and arranger, performed in international jazz festivals around the world and regularly collaborated with household names such as the Israeli Opera, the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta, the Israeli Camerata Orchestra and the Revolution Orchestra
Sapir Rosenblatt appears in the following:
A Radio Special: Mozart’s "Abduction from the Seraglio"
Thursday, August 17, 2023
In the prime of his illustrious career, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ran in the realm of prominent, Black visionaries. But after composing “Zaide,” an unfinished opera depicting a slave re...
A Radio Special: Verdi’s "Aida”
Thursday, August 10, 2023
At the heart of “Aida” is an African love story: the Ethiopian princess Aida is torn between loyalty to her country and passion for her captor, the Egyptian general Radamès, who loves...
The Art of Vladimir Horowitz, Part 3
Sunday, August 06, 2023
Tonight on Reflections from the Keyboard, David Dubal continues his tribute to pianist Vladimir Horowitz.
A Radio Special: Verdi's "Otello"
Thursday, August 03, 2023
“Otello” debuted in Milan in 1887, just two years after European nations gathered in Berlin to agree on a campaign to carve up and colonize the African continent for their own profit....
A Radio Special: Mozart’s "The Magic Flute"
Thursday, July 27, 2023
In this radio special of “Every Voice with Terrance McKnight,” enjoy this season’s journey into Mozart’s "The Magic Flute," its investigation into the overlooked character of Monostat...
The Art of Vladimir Horowitz Part 1
Sunday, July 23, 2023
This week on Reflections from the Keyboard, David Dubal begins a new series in tribute to Vladimir Horowitz.
Abduction from the Seraglio: Revelations
Thursday, June 01, 2023
With such a dark past, what does the future look like for opera as an art form? From Verdi to Mozart, many of opera’s most celebrated works famously reduce people of African descent t...
Abduction from the Seraglio: A Blind Eye
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Mozart’s “The Abduction from the Seraglio” was first heard in Vienna in 1782, commissioned by Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II to cater to the German-speaking audience of the capital city...
Coming Home
Wednesday, May 03, 2023
After almost three years of pop-up outdoor performances and playing in venues around the city, the NY Phil came home to a newly renovated David Geffen Hall in October of 2022. Part of...
Beyond These Walls
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
The story is a classic in the gilded halls of symphonic music: someone falls ill and a young performer must step in at the last moment. For Leonard Bernstein, that happened live on th...
From the New World
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Do we know when we’re living through history? In 1893, New Yorkers gathered outside Carnegie Hall to hear the ground-breaking premiere of composer Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, bet...
A Time to Mourn
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
April 29th, 1865: Fifteen days after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the Philharmonic paid tribute to the late president with the Funeral March from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3. ...
The Founding
Wednesday, April 05, 2023
On December 7, 1842, a group of musicians gathered in the Apollo Rooms in Lower Manhattan and performed – for the first time – as the Philharmonic Society of New York. The first piece...
The Magic Flute: He Said, She Said
Thursday, March 02, 2023
In Mozart's "The Magic Flute," Monostatos is smitten by the white princess Pamina, whom he is supposed to be guarding under the orders of the high priest Sarastro. His desire to love ...
The Magic Flute: Invisible Man
Thursday, February 23, 2023
At over 200 years old, “The Magic Flute” remains a classic opera which continues to be taught, studied, and performed in sold-out venues around the world. But with more than two centu...
The Magic Flute: From Morehouse to the opera house with Monostatos
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Monostatos the Moor in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” is one of the most famous representations of Blackness in opera - a genre with limited representation of characters of African descen...
Salon de Virtuosi 2020 Career Grant Recipients
Thursday, January 07, 2021
Bob Sherman introduces the 2020 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant recipients.
A Little Night Music With Jenny Lin and Dover String Quartet
Saturday, August 15, 2020
Pianist Jenny Lin performs works by Silvestrov, Mozart, and Stravinsky. We also hear the Dover String Quartet with highlights from the ensemble’s performance in WQXR’s Greene Space.
A Little Night Music With Juho Pohjonen, Davóne Tines, and the Junction Trio
Friday, August 14, 2020
This program features a 2011 A Little Night Music performance of Haydn and Mozart by pianist Juho Pohjonen and highlights from the opera The Black Clown, with bass-baritone Davóne Tines.
A Little Night Music With Inon Barnatan
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
This A Little Night Music features Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan’s 2016 Mostly Mozart debut, for which he performed a range of works from the 18th to the 21st centuries.
