REBEKAH AMBROSINI, Contralto

Contralto Rebekah Ambrosini makes her debut with Maestro Scott and the Helena Symphony performing Bernstein’s Jeremiah Symphony.  Ms. Ambrosini has performed leading roles in opera, concert, oratorio, and musical theater.  She has performed with Tulsa Opera, Sarasota Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Des Moines Metro Lyric Opera, Music Theater of Wichita, Oklahoma Lyric Theater, and the Festival de Lille in France.  Recently, she performed the role of “Hansel” in Hansel and Gretel with the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan. 

Ms. Ambrosini made her Carnegie Hall debut with Musica Sacra conducted by Richard Westenburg as the alto soloist in Mozart’s Requiem. Other oratorio performances include Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus Duruflé’s Requiem, Bach’s Cantata No. 54, Bach’s Magnificat, and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass.

Included among her concert performances are Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Utah Symphony and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir with Keith Lockhart, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Bernstein’s Jeremiah Symphony, Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, Elgar’s Sea Pictures, and the world premiere of Richard Cumming’s Aspects of Hippolytus with the Hartford Symphony.  

Her musical theater credits include “Laurie” in Oklahoma, performed for the Centennial Celebration of the 1893 Oklahoma Land Run, “Hodel” in a national tour of Fiddler on the Roof, and “Julie” in Showboat with the Oklahoma Lyric Theater.

Ms. Ambrosini is currently a Doctoral Fellow at the University of Oklahoma and a Visiting Instructor of Voice at Oklahoma City University.