The Latvian Marina Rebeka is one of the leading soprano of our time and considered one of the world's best Violetta 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), Vienna State Opera and Zurich Opera House. She collaborates with leading conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Antonio Pappano, Fabio Luisi, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Marco Armiliato, Michele Mariotti, Thomas Hengelbrock, Paolo Carignani, Stéphane Denève, Yves Abel, Ottavio Dantone and Alberto Zedda. Outstanding is her varied repertoire, which ranges from Baroque (Handel), Belcanto (Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti) and Verdi (La Traviata) to Tchaikowsky (Eugeny Onegin) and Stravinsky (The Rake's progress). She will open the season 2017/18 with a concert performance of LUSIA MILLER and the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, where she is the first Artist in Residence in this season. As NORMA she will return to the Metropolitan Opera New York, before she will sing Leila/LES PECHEREURS DE PERLES at Lyric Opera Chicago. She will give her house debut at Opera National de Paris singing Violetta/LA TRAVIATA and will return to Opera Monte Carlo to sing Marguerite/FAUST. At Vienna State Opera she will debut the role of Amelia/SIMON BOCCANEGRA, followed by her debut as GIOVANNA D’ARCO at Konzerthaus Dortmund. Besides her opera engagements she will give Gala Concerts at Tchaikovsky Hall Moscow and Palau de la Música Barcelona.
Future engagements will bring her back to the Metropolitan Opera New York, where she will sing Donna Elvira/DON GIOVANNI again. At Vienna State Opera she will sing Violetta/LA TRAVIATA, Mimi/LA BOHEME and she will debut the role of Nedda/PAGLIACCI. With Marguerite/FAUST she will give her house debut at Teatro Real Madrid.
Last season Marina debuted the titel role of THAIS at Salzburg Festival on the side of Placido Domingo. At the Metropolitan Opera New York she debuted Donna Elvira/DON GIOVANNI and sung Mathilde in the new production of Guillaume Tell. Together with Placido Domingo, Marina sung Violetta/LAT TRAVIATA at Vienna State Opera, in Pecs and at Palau de les Arts Valencia. She gave her debut in the titel role of MARIA STUARDA at Rome Opera and debuted Marguerite/FAUST at Latvian National Opera Riga. For the CD recording of the Deutsche Grammphon, she sung Vitellia/LA CLEMENZA DI TITO at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
As an active and widely noticed concert performer, she gave recitals at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the “Rudolfinum” Concert Hall in Prague, Rosenblatt recitals in London, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg accompanied by such ensemples as the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Filarmonici della Scala. She recorded Rossini's PETITE MESSE SOLENNELLE with the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Rome under Antonio Pappano for EMI (Warner Classics). Her first solo CD “Mozart Arias” was released by EMI (Warner Classics) in November 2013, her second one follows this summer: Amor fatale – Rossini arias with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester at BR-Klassik. Marina Rebeka, born in Riga, began her musical studies in Latvia and continued in Italy where she graduated at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome (2007). During these studies, she also attended the International summer academy in Salzburg and Rossini Academy in Pesaro. Marina is also a winner of several international vocal competitions, among which the renowned Bertelsmann Stiftung “Neue Stimmen” Competition in Gütersloh, Germany.