Rebecca Nash

soprano

Lauded by the Seattle Times as a “passionate singing actor with a voice of considerable heft and power” and for her “fearless, thrilling high notes,” this season Rebecca Nash returns to the Metropolitan Opera as the Färberin in Die Frau ohne Schatten, to Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe for further performances of Abigaille in Nabucco and to San Francisco Opera for their production of Tristan und Isolde.

Recent performances include the title role in Elektra and her role debut as Ortrud in Lohengrin with the Metropolitan Opera, the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos for Arizona Opera and her Wiener Staatsoper and Theater Kiel debuts as the Färberin in Die Frau ohne Schatten. She starred in the title role of Turandot with the Metropolitan Opera and Teatro Verdi Padua and will reprise the role in her Royal Swedish Opera debut next season.

Rebecca sang her first performances of the Kaiserin in Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Ópera de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Senta in Der fliegende Holländer with Seattle Opera, the title role in Káťa Kabanová with Oper Köln and Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw (in her American debut) with Boston Lyric Opera. She has sung the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier with English National Opera; a role she later repeated (along with Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly) with Scottish Opera. She appeared with the New York Philharmonic and New York City Opera for Schoenberg’s Erwartung. In her homeland, she made her debut with Opera Australia as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro.

A prolific performer of concert repertoire, she has sung Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder with the Norrköping Sinfonieorchestra with Daniel Harding conducting, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 and Stravinsky’s Les Noces at the Virginia Arts Festival, Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 with Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Kurt Masur conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Dvořák’s Mass in D under Sir Andrew Davis and Fauré’s Requiem with Graeme Jenkins conducting the Orchestre National de Lyon. Other performances include Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Dvořák’s Requiem with the Danish Radio Orchestra, Mozart’s Coronation Mass with the RTVE Madrid, Verdi’s Requiem at Royal Albert Hall, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and Beethoven’s Ah Perfido! with the London Mozart Players.

Rebecca was the recipient of the inaugural Dame Joan Sutherland Singing Award and won first prize at the Herald Sun Aria and Australia Singing Competition. She studied at Monash University before receiving her Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Opera from the Royal College of Music in London.

Representation: Australasia

Guy Barzilay Artists: Europe / North America