Marina Rebeka
Marina Rebeka (born 1980) is a Latvian opera, song and concert soprano.
Biography
Marina Rebeka is one of the leading sopranos of our time and considered one of the world‘s best Violettas in Verdi‘s “La Traviata”. 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), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Bavarian State Opera (Munich), Bavarian State Opera, Musikverein (Vienna), and Zurich Opera House. She collaborates with leading conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Antonio Pappano, Fabio Luisi, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Daniele Gatti, Marco Armiliato, Michele Mariotti, Thomas Hengelbrock, Paolo Carignani, Kent Nagano, and Ottavio Dantone.
Outstanding is her varied repertoire, which ranges from Baroque (Handel) to Bel Canto (Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti), and Verdi (La Traviata) to Tchaikovsky (Eugene Onegin) and Britten (War Requiem). As an active and widely noticed concert performer, she has given recitals at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the “Rudolfinum” Concert Hall in Prague, St. John's Hall in London, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg, Palau de la Música in Barcelona and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, accompanied by such ensembles as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and Filarmonici della Scala.
Her first solo CD, “Mozart Arias” with Speranza Scappucci and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, was released by EMI (Warner Classics) in November 2013. Her next album, “Amor fatale” – Rossini arias with Marco Armiliato and the Münchner Rundfunkorchester - was released in the summer of 2017 by BR-Klassik.
Born in Riga, Marina Rebeka began her musical studies in Latvia and continued in Italy, where she graduated from the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome (2007). During her studies, she also attended the International Summer Academy in Salzburg and Rossini Academy in Pesaro. In the 2017/18 season she was named the first-ever artist in residence by the Münchner Rundfunkorchester. In December 2016 she was granted Order of the Three Stars, the highest award of the Republic of Latvia, for her cultural achievements.
Awards
- 1st Prize at 4th Concorso Internazionale di Canto Lirico Premio Capriole in Franciacorta
- 1st Prize and Public Prize at 5th Concorso Lirico Internazionale Ottavio Ziino in Rome
- 1st Prize at 20th International Singing Competition Neue Stimmen of the Bertelsmann Stiftung in October 2007
CD and DVD Productions
- 2013: Gioachino Rossini: Petite messe solennelle, Antonio Pappano (conductor), Orchestra e Coro della Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (EMI)
- 2013: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Opera arias, Speranza Scappucci (conductor), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (Warner Music)
- 2015: Giacomo Puccini: La Boheme Live at the Met (The Metropolitan Opera New York)
- 2015: DVD Gioachino Rossini: Guillaume Tell, Michele Mariotti (conductor), Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna (DECCA)
- 2016: Featured in "Romance at the Met" (Live) (The Metropolitan Opera New York)
- 2017: Gioachino Rossini: Amor fatale, Marco Armiliato (conductor), Munich Radio Orchestra (BR-Klassik)
- 2018: Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller (Live), Ivan Repušić (conductor), Munich Radio Orchestra (BR-Klassik)
- 2018: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito (Live), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Chamber Orchestra of Europe,RIAS Kammerchor (Deutsche Grammophon)
Repertory
Role | Composer | Opera |
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Adina | Donizetti | L'elisir d'amore |
Agilea | Handel | Teseo |
Anai | Rossini | Moise et Pharaone |
Anna Bolena | Donizetti | Anna Bolena |
Anna Erisso | Rossini | Maometto II |
Antonia | Offenbach | Les contes d'Hoffmann |
Amelia Grimaldi | Verdi | Simone Boccanegra |
Contessa di Folleville | Rossini | Il viaggio a Reims |
Donna Anna | Mozart | Don Giovanni |
Donna Elvira | Mozart | Don Giovanni |
Elettra | Mozart | Idomeneo |
Fiordiligi | Mozart | Cosi fan tutte |
Ginevra | Handel | Ariodante |
Giovanna | Verdi | Giovanna d'Arco |
Juliette | Gounod | Roméo et Juliette |
Leila | Bizet | Les pecheurs de perles |
Liu | Puccini | Turandot |
Lucia | Donizetti | Lucia di Lammermoor |
Luisa | Verdi | Luisa Miller |
Madama Cortese | Rossini | Il viaggio a Reims |
Marguerite | Gounod | Faust |
Maria Stuarda | Donizetti | Maria Stuarda |
Mathilde | Rossini | Guillaume Tell |
Micaëla | Bizet | Carmen |
Mimì | Puccini | La bohème |
Musetta | Puccini | La bohème |
Norma | Bellini | Norma |
Tatiana | Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin |
Thais | Massenet | Thais |
Violetta Valery | Verdi | La Traviata |
Vitellia | Mozart | La clemenza di Tito |