Maria Belen Rivarola
Lyric Soprano
ABOUT MARIA BELEN
Attended a BA in Rosario (Santa Fé, Argentina) at Facultad
de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Nacional and graduated
in Buenos Aires at Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón,
her first vocal studies were with Mtro Horacio Amauri Pérez,
while she currently works with Mtra Rozita Zozoulia in
Buenos Aires and with Mtro Gerald Martin Moore in New York
(vocal teacher & consultant; recitalist with Renée Fleming).
Beyond the main lyric traits (warm quality, freshness,
beautiful color, pristine and full timbre, turning brighter
as required), her voice also encompasses a quantity of
the lyric-dramatic –spinto- attributes (power, stamina,
technical prowess and agility), thus allowing her
to incipiently portray additional roles such as
Agathe (Der Freischütz), Amelia (Un ballo in maschera),
Leonora (Il trovatore), Cio-Cio San (Madama Butterfly),
Mimì (La Bohème), la Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro)
and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), as detailed
below in the repertoire.
Argentinian lyric soprano, winner of several
international competitions, prizes and awards:
2006 - First Prize - Young Music Student Contest - Santa Fe Mozarteum
2007 - Winner - International Opera Contest - San Juan - Argentina
2007 - Lyric Revelation Prize - Radio Clásica & Italian Consulate - Rosario
2010 - National Scholarship Award - Mozarteum Argentino
2012 - Winner - First Lyric Contest - Enrique R. Francovigh - Rosario
2014 - Third Price - Chamber Music Interpretation Contest - Lumen Artis
2014 - Winner - International Singing Contest - Trujillo - Perú
2014 - National Scholarship Award - Mozarteum Argentino
2017 - Winner - Alejandro Cordero Vocal Competition - NYC - USA
2017 - International Scholarship Award - Mozarteum Argentino
2018 - Winner - Dr. Luis Sigall International Vocal Competition - Chile
2018 - First Prize - Maria Callas Vocal Competition - Brazil
Exceptionally gifted, talented and possessor of
a true Verdi soprano voice.
Conveys innocence, vulnerability and pathos, as required
for the portrayal of the endearing lyric roles; yet
she is capable of deploying a considerable technical arsenal of
interpretation capacities for the lyric-dramatic characters.
She has performed in theaters and opera companies
all over Argentina, including Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires.
In Buenos Aires she has performed in several opera companies, in roles including: Leilà (Les pescheurs de perles) at the “Teatro Roma, Avellaneda”; Nanetta (Falstaff), Ännchen (Der Freischütz), Clarice (Il mondo della luna), Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica), Anna (Anna Bolena), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Elvira (Ernani) and Musetta (la Boheme) for “Buenos Aires Lírica”; Anna (Anna Bolena) for “ONG Clásica del Sur”, Antonia (Les contes de Hoffmann) for “Juventus Lyrica”; Musetta (La Boheme) and Vitellia (Clemenza di Tito) in Tucuman and Violetta (La Traviata) in Chile. For the concert stage she has performed as soloist in the Mozart and Brahms Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Dvorak and Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Beethoven´s Ninth Symphony and the Messe Solennelle Sainte-Cécile by Gounod.
In 2017 she obtained her degree as a singer in the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón and made her debut at Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires in the premier of Dvorak’s opera Rusalka. In the same year she won the Alejandro Cordero Vocal Competition performing at the Argentinian Embassy, Manhattan School of Music and Americas Society in New York City. In April 2018 she obtained the first prize in the prestigious Maria Callas Vocal Competition in Brazil, and also won the 2018 Dr. Sigall International Vocal Competition in Viña del mar, Chile.
OPERA
REPERTOIRE + ROLES
Verdi
Puccini
Mascagni
Leoncavallo
Donizetti
Bellini
Dvořák
Bizet
Gounod
Mozart
Haydn
Offenbach
von Weber
La traviata
Luisa Miller
Il trovatore
Ernani
Un ballo in maschera
Don Carlo
La Bohème
Turandot
Suor Angelica
Madama Butterfly
Gianni Schicchi
L’amico Fritz
Pagliacci
L’elisir d’amore
Lucia de Lammermoor
Anna Bolena
Lucrezia Borgia
La Sonambula
Rusalka
Carmen
Les pescheurs de perles
Faust
Romeo et Juliette
La clemenza di Tito
Le nozze di Figaro
Don Giovanni
Così fan tutte
Idomeneo
Il mondo della luna
Les contes d’ Hoffmann
Der Freischütz
Violetta
Luisa
Leonora
Elvira
Amelia
Elisabetta
Musetta / Mimì
Liù
Suor Genovieffa
Cio Cio San / Kate Pinkerton
Lauretta
Suzel
Nedda
Adina
Lucia
Anna
Lucrezia
Amina
Rusalka
Michaëla
Leilà
Margherite
Juliette
Vitellia
Contessa
Donna Anna / Donna Elvira
Fiordiligi
Elettra
Clarice
Antonia
Ännchen / Agathe
CONCERT
REPERTOIRE
Mozart
Beethoven
Brahms
Orff
Vivaldi
Rossini
Pergolesi
Palmieri
Dvorak
Golijov
Grieg
Krönungsmesse
Requiem
Exsultate, jubilate
9. Sinfonie
Ein Deutsches Requiem
Carmina Burana
Nulla in mondo pax sincera
Stabat Mater
Salve Regina
Misa Tango
Stabat Mater
The night of flying horses
Peer Gynt
RECORDINGS
Timor di me? - D'amor sull'ali rosee - Il trovatore (Verdi)
Pace, pace mio Dio! - La forza del destino (Verdi)
Tacea la notte - Il trovatore (Verdi)
Song to the Moon (Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém) - Rusalka (Dvořák)
Ecco il punto, o Vitellia - Non più di fiori - La clemenza di Tito (Mozart)
Song to the Moon (Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém) - Rusalka (Dvořák)
Surta è la notte - Ernani involami! - Ernani (Verdi)
Elle a fui, la tourterelle - Les contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach)
Casta Diva - Norma (Bellini)
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