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, has established her as one of her generation’s most interesting young singers essaying the operatic repertory, on the international scene.

Highlights of her future engagements include La traviata at the Hamburgische Staatsoper, at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia (with Lorin Maazel), at the Chicago Lyric Opera, Carmen at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden (with Teodor Currentzis), and at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia (with Zubin Mehta).
In 2011/12 she will make her much awaited 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 (with Roberto Abbado), as well as at the Opernhaus in Zürich, at the Wiener Staatsoper and at the Chicago Lyric Opera.
In 2011 she will make her Covent Garden debut singing Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte.
Riccardo Muti will conduct her again in Moïse et Pharaon at the Teatro dell’Opera in Roma.
On the concert side, she will work with such conductors as Alberto Zedda and Stéphane Denève.

Celebrated as the revelation in the summer 2007 when she sang the roles of Contessa di Folleville and Madama Cortese in Il viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, she was immediately reinvited to Pesaro to sing the role of Anna in Maometto II under Gustav Kuhn in August 2008, where she had a remarkable success, imposing herself on the international scene. In April 2009 she made her Teatro alla Scala debut, singing Il viaggio a Reims (Contessa di Folleville), with Ottavio Dantone.

In the last two seasons she performed La traviata at the Volksoper in Wien, at the Latvian National Opera in Riga and at the Theater Erfurt, Maometto II during a Japan tour with the Rossini Opera Festival (under Alberto Zedda). She also made several important debuts: as Tatjana in Evgenij Onegin at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari (with Mikhail Jurowski), as Adina in L’elisir d’amore at the Latvian National Opera in Riga, at the Komische Oper in Berlin in Teseo (Agilea) by Händel, and her mozartian debut, as Elettra in Idomeneo at the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy (with Kirill Karabits). In Riga, with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, she has sung Ein Deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms. In Altenberg, Koeln and Liverpool she has sung War Requiem by Britten with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Born in Riga (Latvia), Marina Rebeka began her musical studies at the “Ridze” Music School, and she graduated at the “Jazep Medins” Music College, under the guidance of Natalia Kozlova. A winner of several vocal competitions, in June 2006 she graduated at the Accademia Internazionale delle Arti in Rome, and in June 2007 she graduated at 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.

She has won the first prize at the renowned competition Neue Stimmen of the Bertelsmann Foundation in Gütersloh in October of 2007.