Biography
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 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 in Madama Butterfly and Dorothée in Cendrillon. In the 2009-2010 season Ms. Ringle returns to New York City Opera to cover Rosimra in Partenope and makes her role debut as Hansel in Hansel and Gretel with Piedmont Opera. Recent engagements include 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 returns Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall with de Falla’s Siete Cancones Populares Españolas. This summer, she returns to the Princeton Festival to sing the title role in Ariodante. In 2007, she 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. In Spring 2008 she collaborated with Ars Antiqua Baroque Orchestra, performing 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.
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. She has performed Handel’s Messiah with Branford Camerata and Utah Symphony.
A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and The Yale School of Music her roles at Yale included Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Jacqueline in 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 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. She competed in Vienna at the international level of the 2007 Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition. 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. 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, Frazelle’s Appalachian Folksongs, Argento’s Casa Guidi, and Bolcom’s I will breathe a Mountain in recital. May 2008 marked her return to the VOX Composers Showcase under the auspices of New York City Opera. Ms. Ringle holds a B.A. with Highest Honors in Comparative Literature from Oberlin College.