Jan 22, 24, 26, 28 2021
Opéra de Monte-Carlo
Feb 10, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26
March 3 2021
Opéra national de Paris
May 06, 09, 12, 15, 20, 23, 26, 30 2021
NATIONALE OPERA & BALLET
June 13 2021
Konzerthaus Dortmund
June 25, Aug 14 2021
Arena di Verona
With her voluptuous but scalable voice and instinctive sense of musical drama, Rebeka gives a lot of herself in these characterizations, inhabiting each heroine so fully that the music seems like her natural communicative idiom.
Executed to perfection, not only technically, but also on the emotional level. Marina Rebeka is certainly one of the most talented sopranos on the world opera scene.
Interview
Elle is Marina Rebeka’s fourth solo album, celebrating the diversity of the female roles in some of the greatest French Opera Arias of the canon.
From a sweet recounting of the pleasures of love in Charpentier’s Louise, to the steely determination of Juliette in Gounod’s last scene, passing through the new-found piety of Thaïs, Carmen’s indomitably wild character, Chimène’s extreme sadness in Le Cid, and Marguerite’s transformation from an innocent girl in love into a woman longing for a man who will not return, these and the many more arias that fill this recording explore the emotional spectrum of the female roles in French Opera.
A perfect modern introduction to French Opera for the new listener as well as a valuable addition to the library of the connoisseur, Elle showcases the extraordinary art of Marina Rebeka, one of the most complete sopranos of our times, with not only a unique vocal prowess and range but with unusually deep interpretative powers, making each aria come to life in a new way.
Elle is a studio recording featuring the Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen (Switzerland) conducted by Michael Balke.
Marina Rebeka, soprano
Michael Balke, conductor
Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, Switzerland