Rebecca Ringle
Praised by Opera News for her “richly focused voice”, young mezzo-soprano Rebecca Ringle’s performances have brought her acclaim on operatic and concert stages. Her New York City Opera debut as Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana was hailed as “sultry” and “sweetly sung” by The Wall Street Journal and London’s Financial Times. She returned to NYCO as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Dorothée in Cendrillon and to cover Rosmira in Partenope. Most recently Rebecca joined the Brevard Symphony for Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra for Verdi’s Requiem, the Omaha and Jacksonville Symphonies for Handel’s Messiah, and returned to the Metropolitan Opera for Elektra. Engagements for the 2016-2017 season include Maddalena in Rigoletto with Baltimore Concert Opera, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Phoenix Symphony, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Cheyenne Symphony, Handel’s Messiah with Augustana College, and her return to the Metropolitan Opera for Alfano’s Cyrano de Bergerac. Future seasons include a debut with the Rogue Valley Symphony and a return to the Metropolitan Opera.
The 2014-2015 saw Ms. Ringle’s return to the Metropolitan Opera for productions of The Death of Klinghoffer and Manon. Additionally, she joined the Rhode Island Philharmonic for The Messiah, the Marlboro Music Festival for their Musicians from Marlboro Tour, the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park for Elijah, and the New West Symphony for Mozart’s Mass in C minor. In the 2013-2014 season, she returned to the Met for Shostakovich’s The Nose, appeared in concert with the National Chorale for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the Oratorio Society of New York for Handel’s Messiah, the New West Symphony Orchestra for Verdi’s Requiem and joined New Orleans Opera as Dorothée in Cendrillon. The 2012-2013 season brought her Metropolitan Opera mainstage debut, singing Rosswisse in Die Walküre, which she also sang for the Tanglewood Festival, her role debut as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Fargo-Moorhead Opera, Stravinsky’s Requiem Canticles with the Bard Music Festival, and her return to the Marlboro Music Festival for the third time. Engagements for 2011-2012 included Handel’s Messiah with Jacksonville Symphony and Augustana College and her return to the Metropolitan Opera. The 2010-2011 season saw Ms. Ringle joining the roster of the Metropolitan Opera in their productions of Nixon in China, Rigoletto, Die Walküre, her international debut as Dido in Dido and Aeneas with the Macau International Music Festival, Armida in Handel’s Rinaldo with Opera Vivente, and Leda in Die Liebe der Danae with the Bard SummerScape.
Recent operatic highlights include Rossweise in Die Walküre with Washington National Opera directed by Francesca Zambello, the title role in Handel’s Ariodante and Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with The Princeton Festival, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel with Piedmont Opera, Suzuki with Cedar Rapids Opera, the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos with Utah Opera. Ms. Ringle made her professional debut as Tebaldo in Don Carlo with the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst. She has performed with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi as a soloist in Piazzolla’s Songe d’une Nuit d’été and as Pâtre/La chatte in L’enfant et les sortilèges. A consummate concert artist and recitalist, Rebecca has performed Handel’s Messiah with Branford Camerata, Richmond Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, and Utah Symphony. She has sung Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Richmond Symphony, in Mozart’s Requiem with the National Chorale, and Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with Orchestra New England. She has appeare in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall performing de Falla’s Siete Cancones Populares Españolas, and has collaborated with Ars Antiqua Baroque Orchestra on arias from Handel’s Hercules and Rinaldo and Vivaldi’s Juditha triumphans. During the summer of 2008 she joined the acclaimed Marlboro Music Festival, performing chamber music and songs by Ravel, Mahler, Janacek and Britten. A frequent performer of new music, Rebecca appeared with concert harpist Grace Cloutier and soprano Jennifer Black in May 2006 at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall with Stanzas in Meditation, a work written for this trio by composer Sarah Kirkland
Snider. She has performed Schoenberg’s Das buch der hängenden Gärten, Frazelle’s Appalachian Folksongs (I), Argento’s Casa Guidi, and Bolcom’s I will Breathe a Mountain in recital. Rebecca performed the role of SHE in the new opera Decoration by Mikael Karlsson with the American Opera Projects and has been a frequent artist in the VOX Composers Showcase at New York City Opera. She is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and The Yale School of Music and has received awards from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Spazio Musica Orvieto Concorso per Cantanti Lirici and the Heida Hermanns International Opera Competition.
