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The German mezzo-soprano, Rebekka Stolz, studied singing with Professor Andreas Karasiak at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz, where she obtained her diploma in Classical Singing (2011-2016), as well as with Professor Klesie Kelly-Moog and Professor Thilo Dahlmann at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt, where she obtained her Master of of Music degree in Classical Singing (2016-2017), and passed her concert exam (July 2018-summer 2021). In parallel to her singing studies she studied linguistics: at University of Haifa in Israel (English Linguistics: 2009-2010) and at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (2006-2014), where her Master's theses was "Valence Classes and Alternations in Modern Hebrew". She attended master-classes with Helmut Deutsch, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Angelika Kirchschlager, Sibylla Rubens and, as part of Barock Vokal Mainz, with lecturers such as Ton Koopman, Jaap ter Linden and Andreas Scholl.
As a concert singer Rebekka Stolz has performed works such as W.A. Mozart's Requiem, J.S. Bach's Weihnachts-Oratorium (BWV 248) and Mass in B minor (BWV 232), George Frideric Handel's Messiah and Jan Dismas Zelenka's Missa votiva. A special collaboration connects her with the Wisebaden-Frankfurt Bach-Vespern (Directors: Clemens Bosselmann, Michael Graf Münster), Cappella Lacensis (Directors: Pater Philipp Meyer, Maria Laach), and Neumeyer Consort (Directors: Felix Koch, Markus Stein), among others. She is a freelancer in the radio choirs of WDR and MDR.
Rebekka Stolz gained operatic experience as Cherubino in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, as Ramiro in W.A. Mozart's La finta giardiniera and as Rosina in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, with which she made her debut at the Thüringisches Landestheater Rudolstadt. In the 2015-2016 season (June 2015-March 2016), she was a member of the young ensemble at the Staatstheater Mainz, where she was heard, among other things, as the second maid in Zemlinsky's opera Der Zwerg. In March 2017 she sang the second maid in R. Strauss' Elektra at the Studio de l'Opéra de Lyon as part of the Festival Mémoires (musical direction: Hartmut Haenchen).
Rebekka Stolz appeared with Barock Vokal at the Schwetzinger SWR-Festspielen and with the Junge Oper Rhein Main (as Anna in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda). She sang with the Israel Symphonic Orchestra at an opera gala in Jerusalem. In 2018 she sang at the invitation of the Alte Oper Frankfurt in the Mozartsaal there at the presentation of the new season, was a semi-finalist at the Internationalen Gesangswettbewerb der Accademia Belcanto Graz and received a scholarship from the Bachfestes Tübingen. Lately she has devoted herself to the song with her piano partner Annalisa Cocciolo. In March 2020 she was a soloist at the Bachwoche Stuttgart. |
