Marina Rebeka
Marina Rebeka (born 1980) is a Latvian opera, song and concert soprano.
Biography
Born in Riga, the Latvian Marina Rebeka is one of the leading sopranos of our time. She has also gained a wide reputation as one of the greatest Rossini and Mozart singers in the world.
Since her international breakthrough at the Salzburg Festival in 2009 under the baton of Riccardo Muti, Marina has been a regular guest at the world’s most prestigious concert halls and opera houses, such as Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall (New York), Teatro alla Scala (Milan), Royal Opera House Covent Garden (London), Bavarian State Opera (Munich), Vienna State Opera and Zurich Opera House.[1]
She collaborates with leading conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Antonio Pappano, Fabbio Luisi, Marco Armiliato, Michele Mariotti, Thomas Hengelbrock, Paolo Carignani, Stéphane Denève, Yves Abel, Ottavio Dantone and Alberto Zedda. Outstanding is her varied repertoire, which ranges from Baroque (Handel), Belcanto (Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti) and Verdi (La Traviata) to Tchaikowsky (Eugeny Onegin) and Stravinsky (The Rake's progress).
As an active and widely noticed concert performer, she gave recitals at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the “Rudolfinum” Concert Hall in Prague, Rosenblatt recitals in London, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg and sung the soprano part in Britten's WAR REQUIEM, Brahm's EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM, Rossini’s STABAT MATER and Mozart's Concert Arias, accompanied by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Filarmonici della Scala. She recorded Rossini's PETITE MESSE SOLENNELLE with the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Rome under Antonio Pappano for EMI (Warner Classics). Her first solo CD “Mozart Arias” was released by EMI (Warner Classics) in November 2014.[2]
This season's performances include Don Giovanni at the Lyric Opera of Chicago,[3] La Traviata and La Boheme at the Metropolitan Opera[4] New York, the debut in concert with Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg, Cosi fan tutte at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and Verdi's La Traviata at Vienna State Opera and ROH Covent Garden in London.
Marina Rebeka, born in Riga, began her musical studies in Latvia and continued in Italy where she graduated at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome (2007). During these studies, she also attended the International Summer Academy in Salzburg and Rossini Academy in Pesaro. Marina is also a winner of several international vocal competitions, among which the renowned Bertelsmann Foundation “Neue Stimmen” Competition in Gütersloh, Germany.[5]
Awards
- Prize at 4th Concorso Internazionale di Canto Lirico Premio Capriole in Franciacorta
- Prize at 5. Concorso Lirico Internazionale Ottavio Ziino in Rom
- Prize at Internationaler Gesangswettbewerb Neue Stimmen of the Bertelsmann Foundation in October 2007
Repertoire (selection)
- Violetta in Verdi's La traviata
- Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo
- Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni
- Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni
- Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte
- Mathilde in Rossini's Guillaume Tell
- Anna Erisso in Rossini's Maometto II
- Juliette in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette
- Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen
- Leila in Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles
- Manon in Massenet's Manon
- Antonia in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann
- Lucia in Donizetti's "[Lucia di Lammermoor]"
References
- ↑ , Marina Rebeka's career.
- ↑ , Mozart Arias Piau - Rebeka.
- ↑ , Kwiecień doesn't quite steal the show in Robert Falls' Don Giovanni.
- ↑ , New York Classical Review.
- ↑ , Die Arbeit muss Spaß machen.