Rebecca Ringle Kamarei

Mezzo-Soprano

American mezzo-soprano Rebecca Ringle Kamarei, known for her “outstanding” (The Washington Post) voice of "otherworldly luminousness" (The New York Times) has earned acclaim for international opera and concert performances of stunning lyricism, musicality, and conviction. Performances in the 2023-2024 season include Bach cantatas with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society’s renowned Gamut Bach Ensemble, Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony with the New Mexico Philharmonic, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and arias and ensembles from Carmen, Rigoletto, and Lakmé with South Florida Symphony, and Handel’s Messiah and Mendelssohn’s Elijah with New Choral Society. Engagements for 2022-2023 included returns to the Metropolitan Opera for productions of La Traviata and The Hours, and to Bard Music Festival for their retrospective on Rachmaninoff. During the 2021-2022 season, she returned to the Metropolitan Opera for productions of Elektra, Hamlet, Rigoletto, and Akhnaten, performed at Bard Music Festival’s celebration of composer Nadia Boulanger, and appeared in recital with pianist Bryan Wagorn at the renowned Aspect Chamber Music Series in works by Gustav and Alma Mahler. On the concert stage, she performed four programs celebrating Erich Korngold with Bard Music Festival and Orchestra NOW, and Ravel's 3 poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé with the Norwalk Symphony. Outside of the classical music world, Ringle Kamarei curated repertoire and sang in works by artist Tara Subkoff as part of the Art Basel and PERFORMA art festivals in Miami and New York. COVID-related 2020-2021 season cancellations included Berlioz's Les nuits d'été with the Missoula Symphony, Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte with Boston Baroque and the Met’s production of Rusalka. During this period, Ringle Kamarei spoke virtually with singers from her alma mater, Yale School of Music, and with students of the acclaimed Brooklyn Youth Chorus, also performing virtually on that ensemble’s year end gala.

In 2013, Ringle Kamarei debuted with the Metropolitan Opera as Rossweise in Die Walküre and productions with that house have included Marnie, Akhnaten, La Cenerentola, Manon, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Death of Klinghoffer, Elektra, The Nose, Nixon in China, and Rigoletto. Other performances include art song and oratorio at Carnegie and Avery Fisher Halls and with Marlboro, Ravinia, and Bard Music Festivals, title roles in Handel’s Ariodante with the Princeton Festival and Marnie with Metropolitan Opera Workshops, Dido in Dido and Aeneas with the Macau International Music Festival in China and further solo appearances with the Cleveland Orchestra, Oratorio Society of New York, Orchestra Giuseppi Verdi di Milano, New York City Opera, American Opera Projects, and Washington National Opera. A passionate champion of new music, Ringle Kamarei has workshopped, performed, and premiered works by Nico Muhly, Mika Karlsson, Sara Kirkland Snider, Sidney Marquez Boquiren, Daron Hagen, and Kevin Puts, among others. TEDxYale presented her talk “Live Performance as a Birthright”. In 2016, she studied and performed as Artist in Residence with Marble House Project, leading to her inclusion in artist Kira Nam Greene’s visionary portrait series Women in Possession of Good Fortune. The New York based group Women of Culture hosted her virtual talk on Women and Opera during the COVID 19 quarantine.

Ms. Ringle Kamarei attended Oberlin College where she received highest honors in Comparative Literature, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, and Yale School of Music.