Young Israeli Soprano Rinnat Moriah has debuted at the Teatro alla
Scala, Concertgebouw, and at the BBC proms in London under the baton
of Maestro Daniel Barenboim. Her wide repertoire of both lyric and Coloratura
roles includes Zerbinetta in Strauss’s Ariadne
auf Naxos, Adina in L'elisir d'amore,
The Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte,
Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro,
Violetta Valery in La Traviata , and the title
role in Stravinsky's The Nightingale.
In recent years, she has sung at the Staatsoper Berlin,
Theater an der Wien, Deutsche Oper
Berlin, Chicago Opera Theater and at the National
Theater of Mannheim. In Italy, she performed at the
Rossini Opera Festival and at the Pergolesi-Spontini
Festival, and sang the role of Zerbinetta
at the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano. She also performed
at the prestigious Aix-en-Provence festival in France.
While attending the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, from
which she graduated summa cum laude, she sang The Queen
of the Night with the Fort Worth Symphony, appeared with the
Opera Company of Philadelphia in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia and
sang the part of Héro in Berlioz's Béatrice
et Bénédict with the Chicago Opera Theater.
On the concert stage, she has appeared with the Staatskapelle Berlin,
The Essen Philharmonic, Rundfunk Sinphonieorchester Berlin, Lucerne
Festival Strings, Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, New World Symphony
in Miami, Saarbrücken Radio symphony orchestra, Kansas-City Symphony
and Richmond Symphony, performing Poulenc's Gloria, Orff's Carmina Burana,
Vivaldi's Gloria, Monteverdi’s Vesperae Veneziane di San Marco, Pergolesi's
Stabat Mater, Schubert’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, Brahms’ Liebesliederwaltzer,
numerous cantatas by Bach and Telemann and Mozart’s Requiem and Mass
in C minor. She has given recitals at the Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts and at the Library of Congress.
An avid interpreter of modern and contemporary music, Ms. Moriah
sang Berg's Lulu's Suite at the Berlin
Philharmonie, conducted by Maestro Daniel Barenboim, and covered
the role of Morgan le Fay in Harrison Birtwistle's
Gawain at the Salzburg Festival. Ms. Moriah has performed
the works of numerous modern composers, including Elliot Carter, Sofia
Gubaidulina, Dominick Argento, Luciano Berio and Jacob Druckman. She
recorded Dominick Argento's Postcard from Morocco, available on Albany
records. In 2011, she debuted Georg Katzer’s Das Kleine Latinum, a song
cycle composed for her and the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic,
with whom she performs regularly. Future Engagements include her Concert
Debut at the Baden-Baden Festival, performing Webern
and Berio, and her Elbphilharmonie Debut with the Ensemble
Modern.
Equally at ease in Baroque repertoire, Ms. Moriah sang the German
Premiere of Nicola Porpora's Polifemo (1735) the title role in Vinci's
Didone Abbandonata (1737) at the Händel Festspiele in Halle, Traetta’s
Ifigenia in Tauride (1763) at the “Winter in Schwetzingen” festival,
and recorded the role of Salomena in Christian Ludwig Boxberg’s Sardanapalus
(1698).
This year, Ms. Moriah will be making her debut with the Israeli Philharmonic
as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, under the Baton of Maestro Dan Ettinger.
