Rinat Shaham (Hebrew: רינת שחם) is an Israeli born mezzo-soprano who has received numerous accolades for her international operatic, concert and recital performances.

She has performed with some of the most eminent conductors of today, including Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, André Previn, Christoph Eschenbach, Leonard Slatkin, Daniel Barenboim, Simone Young, Antonio Pappano, William Christie, David Robertson, Dan Ettinger, Christian Thielemann, and Eiji Oue.

Rinat Shaham's many roles include the title role in Bizet's Carmen, a role for which she is most famous and has sung internationally hundreds of performances, Charlotte in Massenet's Werther, Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte, Mélisande in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, Cherubino in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Zerlina and Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Blanche in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, Cendrillon (by Massenet), Ottavia in the coronation of Poppea, and Judit (Bluebeard's castle).

Opera DVDs with Rinat Shaham have been produced for Carmen, The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro.

[6] She has recorded excerpts from operas by Jean-Baptiste Lully for Erato and Deutsche Grammophon with William Christie, and Maurice Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges with André Previn.