Voice: | Soprano |
Nationality: | Latvian |
Year of Birth: | 1980 |
Marina Rebeka (born 1980) is a Latvian opera, song and concert soprano.
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.