Marina Rebeka

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Marina Rebeka (* 1980 in Riga ) is a Latvian opera, song and concert singer ( soprano ).

Life

Marina Rebeka began her musical education in 1998 at the Jāzepa Mediņa mūzikas skola in Riga, a music school named after Jāzeps Mediņš for highly talented young people. a. Baiba Skride , Maija Kovaļevska and Andris Nelsons emerged .

Since 2002 she has studied singing at the Conservatorio Arrigo Boito in Parma , at the Accademia Internazionale delle Arti in Rome and at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome, where she graduated in 2007 with top marks. She took part in master classes, u. a. at the International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg (with Grace Bumbry ) and at the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro with Alberto Zedda . Since the 2007/2008 season, Marina Rebeka has sung at the Erfurt Theater , the Vienna Volksoper , the National Opera of Finland and the Komische Oper Berlin . Engagements at the opera houses in Zurich , Hamburg and Chicago followed .

Marina Rebeka achieved her international breakthrough with her debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2009 as Anaï in a new production of Rossini's Moïse et Pharaon .

Since then she has made guest appearances worldwide at the most famous opera and concert stages such as the Bavarian State Opera , the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Vienna State Opera , the Zurich Opera House , the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan , at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, the Lyric Opera of Chicago , Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Opera in New York as well as at renowned festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, the Rossini Festival in Pesaro and the opera festivals in Baden-Baden and Verona. At the 2016 Salzburg Festival, she sang the title role of the opera Thaïs by Jules Massenet : "The sovereignty with which she is able to swell the notes up and down in all registers actually becomes erotic power."

As a concert soloist, Marina Rebeka u. a. the War Requiem by Benjamin Britten , Rossini's Petite Messe solennelle in the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms , together with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra ( Latvijas Nacionālais simfoniskais orķestris ).

She has a daughter born in 2011 with the Ukrainian tenor Dmytro Popow.

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Discography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Well-known graduates of the Jāzepa Mediņa mūzikas skola , accessed on July 6, 2013 (Latvian).
  2. ^ A b Musical career of Marina Rebeka , accessed on July 6, 2013 (Latvian).
  3. ↑ Hamburgische Staatsoper: Journal , Season 2009/10, Issue 1, p. 21. ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamburgische-staatsoper.de
  4. ↑ Recensies Seizoen 2012–2013 - De Nederlandse Opera .
  5. ↑ Michael Stallknecht: Alone, he lacks strength . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 18, 2016, p. 11.
  6. ↑ Marina Rebeka: “The work must be fun!” (No longer available online.) Der-neue-merker.eu, archived from the original on September 29, 2017 ; Retrieved December 5, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.der-neue-merker.eu
personal data
SURNAME Rebeka, Marina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian opera, song and concert singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga