MARINA REBEKA and JONATHAN TELEMANN
On July 28, the wonderful Marina Rebeka will give her first major summer concert in Jurmala, at Dzintari Concert Hall. Joining our celebrated prima donna on stage will be the Chilean-born American tenor Jonathan Tetelman (1988), who now holds a firm place in the Olympus of classical music. This will be one of the rare occasions when Latvian audiences will meet an opera artist who is right now at the peak of fame, not on the way there or already bidding farewell to the great stages.
Music lovers speak Marina Rebeka’s name with reverence and delight. The soprano, who has achieved the greatest success in our country’s history, is awaited at all the world’s opera houses, the very ones that every musical theater prima donna dreams of. At Milan’s La Scala and the Salzburg Festival, at the Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall in New York, at London’s Covent Garden, the Paris and Vienna Opera, the Berlin State Opera and the Royal Opera in Madrid, the beautiful native of Riga and her enchanting voice are everywhere greeted with stormy ovations.
Jonathan Tetelman has conquered all of these stages as well, and The New York Times called him a “total star” five years ago already, while Opera News described him as a first-rate talent with a brilliant career ahead (“He’s truly a major talent with a brilliant career ahead”). The leading classical music label Deutsche Grammophon has signed Tetelman to an exclusive contract and has already released two of his solo albums. It should be noted that the first recording, Arias, was conducted by Latvian audiences’ favorite Karel Mark Chichon, and the soloist himself received the 2023 annual award from the prominent German magazine OPER! for it. Very recently, this publication also awarded him the title of Best Opera Singer of the Year.
Both Marina and Jonathan are focusing this season not only on opera roles, but also on concerts. Marina is taking part in the tour of the legendary tenor Jonas Kaufmann, while Jonathan has devoted a major solo program to his idol Mario Lanza. But on July 28, both stars will set everything else aside to meet in Jurmala, where they will give their admirers an astonishing and unforgettable evening not to be missed!
