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

CD and DVD Productions

Repertory

Role Composer Opera
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

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