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. In 2010, Ms. Ringle performs the title role in Handel’s Ariodante with the Princeton Festival and covers the role of Rosmira in Handel’s Partenope with New York City Opera before making her role debut as Dido in Dido and Aeneas with the Macau International Music Festival in China. She also appears with the New York Metamorphoses Ochestra as the title role in Handel’s Susanna, with the National Chorale as Alto Soloist in Mozart’s Requiem and Haydn’s Mass in Time of War, and colaborates with New York’s art.party.theater.company in an innovative setting of Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Eichendorff Liederkreis. In 2011, she joins the roster of the Metropolitan Opera in Peter Sellars’ production of Nixon in China and performs as Armida in Handel’s Rinaldo with Baltimore’s Opera Vivente.

In Fall 2009 she returned to Ars Antiqua Baroque Orchestra, performing arias from Handel’s Saul and Alexander’s Feast, and appeared as Hansel in Hänsel und Gretel with Piedmont Opera. During the summer of 2009 she returned to the acclaimed Marlboro Music Festival, performing music of Schumann and Fauré. Additional 2009 engagements included performances as Suzuki with Cedar Rapids Opera, Hyppolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Princeton Festival, alto soloist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Richmond Symphony and a return to Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall with de Falla’s Siete Cancones Populares Españolas. 

Rebecca’s debut as Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana with New York City Opera in October 2007 was hailed as “sultry” and “sweetly sung” by The Wall Street Journal and London’s Financial Times. She continued with NYCO during the 2007-2008 season as Suzuki (Madama Butterfly) and Dorothée (Cendrillon). In 2007, she also performed as Rossweise in Die Walküre with Washington National Opera directed by Francesca Zambello and covered the role of the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos with Utah Opera.

Rebecca Ringle made her professional debut as Tebaldo in Don Carlo with the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst. She has performed with Milan’s 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 and has performed Handel's Messiah with Branford Camerata and the Utah Symphony.

Ms. Ringle has received awards from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, The José Iturbi International Voice Competition, the Spazio Musica Orvieto Concorso per Cantanti Lirici and the Heida Hermanns International Opera Competition. She competed in Vienna at the international level of the 2007 Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition.

A committed 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. In November 2006, she joined New York's New Millenium Ensemble for the world première of The Inner Voices of Blue by Miriama Young. She has performed Schoenberg's Das buch der hängenden Gärten, Berg’s Sieben früher lieder, Frazelle’s Appalachian Folksongs (I), Argento's Casa Guidi, and Bolcom's I will breathe a Mountain in recital. May 2010 marks her return to the VOX Composers Showcase under the auspices of New York City Opera. 

Rebecca is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and The Yale School of Music. At Yale her roles included Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte), Hermia (A Midsummer Night's Dream) and Jacqueline (Le medecin malgre lui). She appeared as Alto Soloist in concert with the Yale Philharmonia under Sir Neville Marriner in Mozart's Coronation Mass, and under Krzysztof Penderecki in the composer's Credo Mass. In March 2006, she performed the Schoenberg arrangement of Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with Orchestra New England. At Oberlin her roles included Ruggiero in Handel's Alcina.

Ms. Ringle holds a B.A. with Highest Honors in Comparative Literature from Oberlin College. She lives in New York City. 

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Performances:

Rosmira (cvr)
Handel: Partenope 
New York City Opera
April 3, 9. 11, 13, 15, 17
2010

Ariodante
Handel: Ariodante
The Princeton Festival
June 19, 27, 2010. 

Recital: Schumann, Fauré, Britten.
Oberlin Conservatory
Oberlin, OH
July 16

Dido 
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Macau International Music Festival: Macau, China
October 15, 16, 17, 2010

Handel: Messiah
Richmond Symphony
Richmond, VA
December 13, 2010

Chairman Mao’s Secretary(cvr)
Nixon in China
Metropolitan Opera
February 2, 5, 9, 12, 15, 19, 2011

Armida
Handel: Rinaldo
Opera Vivente
Baltimore, MD
March 2011