Born in Riga (Latvia )
Studied at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem and took part later in the young singers program at the Israeli opera in Tel Aviv
She started her professional career in 2001, as Konstanze, in production of Mozart's Die Entfürung aus dem Serail.
Ira has since then become the leading soloist lyric soprano of the Israeli Opera :
Among her roles In Tel Aviv she sung
Pamina in Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) under the baton of Dan Ettinger,
Rusalka in Rusalka (Dvorák) under the baton of Asher Fish. Valencienne in Die lustige Witwe (Lehar), Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Offenbach - Frederic Chaslin, Angelica in Suor Angelica (Puccini) - Asher Fisch, Tatiana in Eugene Onegin (Tchaikowsky) - Dmitri Jurowski, Mimi in La Bohème (Puccini) - Keri-Lynn Wilson,
Lisa in Pikovaja Dama (Tchaikovsky) - Omer Welber, Marguerite in Faust (Charles Gounod)
Nedda in Pagliacci Leoncavallo
Jenufa in Jenufa (Janacek)
Desdemona in Otello (Verdi)
Amelia in Un ballo un Maschera (Verdi)
Magda in La Rondine (Puccini)
In Europe she sung
Adina L’Elisir d’Amore (Donizetti) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Norma in Norma (Bellini) at the Châtelet Paris Lisa in Pikovaja Dama (Tchaikovsky)Wielki Warsaw Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly (Puccini) in Wielki Warsaw and repeated in Cagliari Italy
Tatiana in Eugene Onegin (Tchaikowsky) - Dani Ettinger in Manheim Opera Theater