LA Opera Artist

Rebekah Camm
Soprano

Rebekah Camm

American soprano Rebekah Camm is a young artist who consistently demonstrates her artistic and musical excellence on the operatic, concert and recital stages. Hailed for her "unfailingly gorgeous" voice and exceptional dramatic abilities, Ms. Camm has clearly established herself as a "signi?cant new voice in opera" (The Washington Post). Since making her operatic debut as Micaëla in Carmen with the Houston Grand Opera in 2005, Ms. Camm has performed with the Cincinnati May Festival, LA Opera, Fort Worth Symphony, San Francisco Opera and the National Symphony Orchestra. In her short career, she has undertaken important roles with excellent success garnering consistent acclaim for both the beauty of her singing and her compelling stage presence.

The 2009/10 season for Ms. Camm began with performances of Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica and Nella in Gianni Schicchi in her San Francisco Opera company debut. Future engagements include her role debut as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro for LA Opera, a return to the Cincinnati May Festival to sing Mozart's C-minor Mass and Bach's St. Matthew Passion, and a role and company debut singing the title role in Suor Angelica with Lorin Maazel at the Castleton Festival.

A graduate of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, Ms. Camm performed numerous mainstage roles with HGO, including Pamina in Die Zauberlöte, Gretel in Basil Twist's celebrated production of Hansel and Gretel and Dolly Messiter in the world premiere of Andre Previn's Brief Encounter. Recent performances include her debut with the Cincinnati May Festival in Mozart's Requiem and performances of Marzelline in Fidelio in her debut with LA Opera. She was also heard in the title role of Handel's Alcina with Wolf Trap Opera Company and as Nella with both LA Opera and the Spoleto Festival in the acclaimed Woody Allen production of Gianni Schicchi.

Ms. Camm has been regularly acknowledged as a ?ne, emerging artist and was awarded the 2005 Judith Raskin Memorial Award for her work as a Santa Fe Opera apprentice. She was a ?nalist in the Central Region of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the 2004 American Opera Society Grand Prize winner. She studied music at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and at DePaul University.