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Marina Rebeka
Marina Rebeka (born 10 September 1980) is a Latvian soprano, active on both opera and concert stages. Associated with Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, she performs primarily in the 19th-century Italian and French repertoire, most notably works by Gioachino Rossini, in addition to Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni, another frequent role.
Educated in Latvia and Italy, she made her professional debut in 2007. After her international breakthrough in Rossini's Moïse et Pharaon at the Salzburg Festival in 2009, she has been performing leading roles with many opera companies, such as the Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera, and Latvian National Opera.
Rebeka has been recording under her own label "Prima Classic" since 2018. She had previously recorded for Warner Classics and BK-Klassik.
Rebeka was born in Riga, to Belarusian father and Siberian-born Latvian mother. The family name used to be Rebeko but was changed to Rebeka during the Soviet era; the name was first adopted by her paternal grandfather. Rebeka's maternal grandfather, Juris Jankovičs (1924–2019), was deported to Siberia with his family on 14 June 1941 and only returned more than twenty years later. He detailed his camp experience in two books: Skorpiona slazdā ('Scorpio trap', 2009) and Spīta krustceles ('Despite the crossroads', 2012), both published under the auspices of the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia.
She studied at the Grammar School of Nordic Languages. At the age of 13 she was inspired to become a singer after attending a performance of Bellini's Norma at the Dailes Theatre with her parents. Having no prior knowledge, she then began her initial musical studies at the music school "Rīdze" in the evening, concurrent to her Gymnasium studies. At the age of 17, after rejected by the Latvian Academy of Music, she entered the Jāzeps Mediņš Riga Music High School (Jāzepa Mediņa Rīgas mūzikas vidusskola), studying under Natālija Kozlova. She subsequently went to Italy, studying at the Conservatorio Arrigo Boito in Parma, during which she had her first stage experience playing Rosina in The Barber of Seville for a children audience, and then graduated at the Accademia Internazionale delle Arti in Rome (2006), and Conservatorio Santa Cecilia (2007). She had also attended Grace Bumbry's masterclass at the International Summer Academy at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.
Rebeka made her professional debut in 2007 at the Theater Erfurt as Violetta in La traviata, a role in which she would later sing at the Latvian National Opera, Vienna Volksoper and Finnish National Opera. Also in 2007, she participated Alberto Zedda's Accademia Rossiniana, portraying Folleville and Madama Cortese in Il viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival, where she returned for Maometto II (2008), Stabat Mater (2010). Other engagements include Agilea in Teseo (Komische Oper Berlin), Britten's War Requiem (Liverpool Philharmonic), Tatyana in Eugene Onegin (Teatro Lirico di Cagliari), Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem (Latvian National Symphony Orchestra). In 2009, she sang Adina in L'elisir d'amore in Riga, and made her La Scala debut in Il viaggio a Reims, before portraying Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo at the Opéra national de Lorraine.
Her international breakthrough came when she made her Salzburg Festival debut in 2009 in Rossini's Moïse et Pharaon conducted by Riccardo Muti. She sang in War Requiem with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, at the Usher Hall on 30 April 2010. In May and June, she performed Micaëla in Carmen in Baden-Baden (dir. Teodor Currentzis), and Valencia (dir. Zubin Mehta). In July 2010, she made her Royal Opera, London debut by replacing Angela Gheorghiu in La traviata; she only returned to replace Sonya Yoncheva in the same production in 2015. Later in the year, she sang her first Donna Anna in Don Giovanni in Deutsche Oper Berlin's new production, and was featured in a new staging of Moïse et Pharaon at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma conducted by Muti.
Rebeka performed in Rossini's Stabat Mater with the NDR Sinfonieorchester in April 2011. In October 2011, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Michael Grandage's new production of Don Giovanni, and subsequently performed in another Moïse et Pharaon, presented by the American Symphony Orchestra and the Collegiate Chorale, conducted by James Bagwell at Carnegie Hall. The year 2012 saw her performances in Riga: two solo concerts on 15 January and 28 September, and role debut as Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor. She returned to Berlin for Violetta, and then repeated the role in Florence. Later in the year, she made her Vienna State Opera debut with Donna Anna, and returned in consecutive seasons for Don Giovanni, La traviata, The Tales of Hoffmann (Antonia), and Roméo et Juliette (Juliette).
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Marina Rebeka
Marina Rebeka (born 10 September 1980) is a Latvian soprano, active on both opera and concert stages. Associated with Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, she performs primarily in the 19th-century Italian and French repertoire, most notably works by Gioachino Rossini, in addition to Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni, another frequent role.
Educated in Latvia and Italy, she made her professional debut in 2007. After her international breakthrough in Rossini's Moïse et Pharaon at the Salzburg Festival in 2009, she has been performing leading roles with many opera companies, such as the Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera, and Latvian National Opera.
Rebeka has been recording under her own label "Prima Classic" since 2018. She had previously recorded for Warner Classics and BK-Klassik.
Rebeka was born in Riga, to Belarusian father and Siberian-born Latvian mother. The family name used to be Rebeko but was changed to Rebeka during the Soviet era; the name was first adopted by her paternal grandfather. Rebeka's maternal grandfather, Juris Jankovičs (1924–2019), was deported to Siberia with his family on 14 June 1941 and only returned more than twenty years later. He detailed his camp experience in two books: Skorpiona slazdā ('Scorpio trap', 2009) and Spīta krustceles ('Despite the crossroads', 2012), both published under the auspices of the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia.
She studied at the Grammar School of Nordic Languages. At the age of 13 she was inspired to become a singer after attending a performance of Bellini's Norma at the Dailes Theatre with her parents. Having no prior knowledge, she then began her initial musical studies at the music school "Rīdze" in the evening, concurrent to her Gymnasium studies. At the age of 17, after rejected by the Latvian Academy of Music, she entered the Jāzeps Mediņš Riga Music High School (Jāzepa Mediņa Rīgas mūzikas vidusskola), studying under Natālija Kozlova. She subsequently went to Italy, studying at the Conservatorio Arrigo Boito in Parma, during which she had her first stage experience playing Rosina in The Barber of Seville for a children audience, and then graduated at the Accademia Internazionale delle Arti in Rome (2006), and Conservatorio Santa Cecilia (2007). She had also attended Grace Bumbry's masterclass at the International Summer Academy at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.
Rebeka made her professional debut in 2007 at the Theater Erfurt as Violetta in La traviata, a role in which she would later sing at the Latvian National Opera, Vienna Volksoper and Finnish National Opera. Also in 2007, she participated Alberto Zedda's Accademia Rossiniana, portraying Folleville and Madama Cortese in Il viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival, where she returned for Maometto II (2008), Stabat Mater (2010). Other engagements include Agilea in Teseo (Komische Oper Berlin), Britten's War Requiem (Liverpool Philharmonic), Tatyana in Eugene Onegin (Teatro Lirico di Cagliari), Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem (Latvian National Symphony Orchestra). In 2009, she sang Adina in L'elisir d'amore in Riga, and made her La Scala debut in Il viaggio a Reims, before portraying Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo at the Opéra national de Lorraine.
Her international breakthrough came when she made her Salzburg Festival debut in 2009 in Rossini's Moïse et Pharaon conducted by Riccardo Muti. She sang in War Requiem with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, at the Usher Hall on 30 April 2010. In May and June, she performed Micaëla in Carmen in Baden-Baden (dir. Teodor Currentzis), and Valencia (dir. Zubin Mehta). In July 2010, she made her Royal Opera, London debut by replacing Angela Gheorghiu in La traviata; she only returned to replace Sonya Yoncheva in the same production in 2015. Later in the year, she sang her first Donna Anna in Don Giovanni in Deutsche Oper Berlin's new production, and was featured in a new staging of Moïse et Pharaon at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma conducted by Muti.
Rebeka performed in Rossini's Stabat Mater with the NDR Sinfonieorchester in April 2011. In October 2011, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Michael Grandage's new production of Don Giovanni, and subsequently performed in another Moïse et Pharaon, presented by the American Symphony Orchestra and the Collegiate Chorale, conducted by James Bagwell at Carnegie Hall. The year 2012 saw her performances in Riga: two solo concerts on 15 January and 28 September, and role debut as Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor. She returned to Berlin for Violetta, and then repeated the role in Florence. Later in the year, she made her Vienna State Opera debut with Donna Anna, and returned in consecutive seasons for Don Giovanni, La traviata, The Tales of Hoffmann (Antonia), and Roméo et Juliette (Juliette).