On 15th January, 2017 performed Marina rebeka with opera MARY STUART.
The cruel fight over the control in 16th century England, unfulfilled love, jealousy… and the death. 180 years after the scandalous premier at Milan La Scala, for the very first time, there is an opportunity offered to experience the opera passion of the Italian Bel Canto genius Gaetano Donizetti in Latvia. Performing Marina Rebeka (soprano, Latvia); Katya Levina (soprano, Russia/Germany); Bulent Bezduz (tenor, Turkey); Gianluca Margheri (bass-baritone, Italy). Participants of the concert production: Latvian Festival Orchestra and Latvian Academic Choir “Latvia”. Conductor and the Musical Director of the Concert Production: John Fiore (USA).
Marina Rebeka was born in Riga. She began her musical studies at the Ridze Music School, and graduated from the Jāzeps Mediņš Music College. A winner of several vocal competitions, in 2007 she graduated from the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome. She also attended the Internationale Sommerakademie Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg where she studied with Grace Bumbry, and the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro, under the guidance of Alberto Zedda.
After having been the revelation of the Rossini Opera Festival 2007, singing as Folleville and as Madama Cortese in Il viaggio a Reims in the Accademia Rossiniana production, Marina Rebeka was the winner of the first prize at the famed Neue Stimmen International Singing Competition, in Germany in October 2007. She has had a warm success performing as Violetta in La traviata at the Volksoper in Wien, at the Theater Erfurt and at the Latvian National Opera in Riga. She also made her debut at the Komische Oper in Berlin as Agilea in Händel's Teseo(new production), and she sang Britten's War Requiem with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in Altenberg, Koeln and Liverpool.
She has also performed Anna in Rossini's Maometto II at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and during a Japan tour, La traviata at the Volksoper Wien, Finnish National Opera, and the Latvian National Opera, Adina in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at the Latvian National Opera in Riga, and Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo at the Opéra in Nancy.
Marina Rebeka was awarded the Latvijas Gāze (patron of the LNO) Annual Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievements (2009).
In 2009 she has made a very important debut, singing at the Teatro alla Scala in Il viaggio a Reims, with Ottavio Dantone.
Her much awaited debut at the Salzburg Festival in a new production of Rossini's Moïse et Pharaon (Anaï), under the baton of Riccardo Muti, staged by Jürgen Flimm, in August 2009, has established Marina Rebeka as one of her generation's most interesting young singers, on the international scene.
Her recent and acclaimed Covent Garden debut as Violetta in La traviata (July 2010) came at the end of a rich 2009/10 season, during which she also performed Britten's War Requiem with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Stéphane Denève, and two productions of Carmen (Micaela): at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, and at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, with Zubin Mehta.
In 2011/12 she made her debut at the Metropolitan in a new production of Don Giovanni (Donna Anna), under the baton of James Levine. She will also perform as Donna Anna at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, as well as at the Opernhaus in Zürich, at the Wiener Staatsoper and at the Chicago Lyric Opera.
Her future engagements also include Stabat Mater in Hamburg with the NDR Symphony Orchestra, Moïse et Pharaon at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma under the baton of Riccardo Muti, La traviata at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and at the Metropolitan Opera. In 2011 she will appear at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, in Mosé in Egitto.
Photo: Andrejs Vasjukevičs/ the Embassy of Latgale GORS
