Marina Rebeka

Marina Rebeka is one of the leading sopranos of our time and she is considered to be among the world‘s best Violettas in Verdi‘s “La Traviata” and the greatest Rossini and Mozart music performers. Since her international breakthrough at the Salzburg Festival in 2009, 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, Musikverein (Vienna), and Zurich Opera House. As an active concert performer, she has given recitals at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, among many others. Her first solo CD, “Mozart Arias” was released by EMI (Warner Classics) in November 2013. Her next album, “Amor fatale” - Rossini arias - was released in the summer of 2017 by BR-Klassik. Born in Riga, Marina Rebeka studied in Latvia and Italy, where she graduated from the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome (2007). During her studies, she also attended the International Summer Academy in Salzburg and Rossini Academy in Pesaro. In the 2017/18 season she was named the first-ever artist in residence by the Münchner Rundfunkorchester. In December 2016 she was granted the Order of the Three Stars, the highest award of the Republic of Latvia, for her cultural achievements.<br>