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Isabel Rey soprano , soprano

Dedicated body and soul to her vocation: singing, music and theatre, the soprano Isabel Rey, who hails from Valencia, , is internationally recognized for her exquisite vocal technique and her sensitive acting skills. She is one of the few Spanish artists to have had the honour of performing regularly in the Festival and her distinguished career has taken her to the most important capitals, performing in Vienna, , Hamburg, Berlin, Zurich, , Edinburg, , , Valencia, Paris, Los Angeles, Washington, Stockholm, New York, Brussels, Moscow, Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Rome, Venice and .

Having mastered a wide repertoire, ranging from Monteverdi to Stravinsky, this very versatile singer and actress has sung the lead roles in more than 55 different over the last three decades, the most notable being Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Cosi fan tutte, , , , , , L'Elisir d'amore, La Fille du Règiment, King Arthur, Alcina, Die Fledermaus, Die Königskinder, , , Simone Boccanegra, Otello, , Les Contes de Hoffmann, Les pêcheurs de perles, , , La Bohème, Dialogues des carmelites, Pelléas et Mélisande and The Rake’s Progress, always working with conductors of the importance of , Gianandrea Noseda, , Jesús López Cobos, Ramón Tebar, Franz Welser-Möst, Ton Koopman, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, , Marcello Viotti, Adam Fischer, Neville Marriner, Alain Lombard, Alberto Zedda, , Michel Corboz, William Christie, Marc Minkowski, Fabio Biondi, Fabio Luisi and Lorin Maazel.

As Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro / Teatro Real de Madrid

. Born in Valencia, she began her musical training at the age of six with Pepe Doménech Part, going on to join the “Pequeños Cantores de Valencia” (Little Singers of Valencia) group two years later. She began to study singing at the conservatoire of her home city with Ana Luisa Chova, graduating with honours for exceptional ability. She continued her training with Tatiana Menotti and Juan Oncina, as well as taking master classes with Alfredo Kraus, Montserrat Caballé, and Ileana Cotrubas.

After winning the Bilbao International Singing Competition – among other competitions – Rey debuted in the lead role of (Bellini) in 1987, beginning a career which has established her as one of the most important performers of her generation. Her international debut came in 1988 with Les contes d’Hoffmann (Olympia) in the Lieja , Belgium, and the production then toured Russia.

In 1988 she went on stage at the Vienna Konzerthaus for the first time, appearing in Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate, and she returned to Vienna the year after to sing in the rarely performed , also by Mozart. It was then that she appeared in the Teatro de La , Madrid in Ilia’s Idomeneo, returning immediately to Vienna to sing in Handel’s oratorio, Saul.

It was her Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro in the Amsterdam Opera House in 1993, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, which brought her to the attention of the media. She was hailed as one of the “young stars of the international opera scene”, which opened up the doors of the principal opera houses in Europe to her.

In 1991, she started a cllaboration as soloist in the Zurich Opera House, and she remained loyal to the company for two decades. A big part of her repertoire starts there: Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Gilda ©OUTUMURO/Fidelio Artist (Rigoletto), Servilia (), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Nannetta (Falstaff), Morgana (Alcina), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Zerlina and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Marie (La Fille du régiment), Carolina (Il matrimonio segreto), Norina (Don Pasquale), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor) and Amelia (Simon Boccanegra), always alternating her performances of opera with numerous recitals, concerts and oratorios around the world.

In 1993 she debuted in the Alfredo Kraus Opera Festival in , Gran Canaria (her city of residence) with L’elisir d’amore, alongside Roberto Alagna and Carlos Alvarez. She now habitually performs in this event in operas such as Les contes d’Hoffmann (Olympia and Antonia), Don Pasquale, Falstaff, Die Zauberflöte, Les pêcheurs de perles, Idomeneo and The Rake’s Progress.

. A new production of Nozze di Figaro in the Lausanne Opera House and a new debut as Marie in La Fille du régiment, took up part of 1995, finishing with two concerts of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in the Auditorio Nacional, Madrid and a Christmas concert in Vienna as well as a New Year’s concert in Germany with José Carreras, with whom she has collaborated regularly since 1993. In 1996 Isabel Rey took the lead in new productions of Le nozze de Figaro and Il matrimonio segreto, as well as opening the with the oratorio Jephta by Händel. That same year she debuted in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw alongside Ton Koopman and after that came her first performances in Don Pasquale, Così fan tutte, Il Mondo della luna (Haydn), (on tour in Europe with Harnoncourt) and Alcina, as well as giving a recital of Spanish songs in the Lausanne Opera House and in a Gala in Hamburg alongside and José Carreras.

As Antonia in Les contes d’Hoffmann / Teatro Real de Madrid

1998 began with her debuts in the Teatro Real, Madrid and in the Staatsoper, Vienna, wowing both theatres with her unparalleled Susanna. She then returned to Las Palmas and, after two performances of Mozart’s in Lausanne (conducted by López Cobos), in May she sang her first Lucia di Lammermoor alongside the legendary Alfredo Kraus. After performing in Le Roi David (Honegger) and in the Graz Festival, She sang Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Galicia Symphony Orchestra and Víctor Pablo Pérez. In the same year she appeared twice in the Salzburg Festival, in Il Martirio di San Lorenzo and in Exsultate, Jubilate, before playing Musetta to great acclaim in the Teatro Real (Madrid) and Ilia in A Coruña.

In 1999 she appeared as Adele in Fledermaus in the opening of the Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, which was recorded live by the ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Company), before

. returning to sing her exemplary Susanna in the Mozart Festival in A Coruña. The following year she added the role of Sophie from Der Rosenkavalier and Leïla from Les pêcheurs de perles to her repertoire. She returned to Bilbao with Idomeneo, gave a concert with Carreras and Jaime Aragall in the Castell de Peralada Festival, sang in Le nozze di Figaro again in the Staatsoper, Vienna and finished the year with three Christmas concerts with the Gran Canaria Philharmonic.

She performed the role of Donna Anna for the first time in Zurich in 2001, conducted by Harnoncourt in an acclaimed production of Don Giovanni. She returned to the Teatro Real with Rigoletto, she debuted in La Finta Giardiniera in the Nice Opera House, sang Così fan tutte in Vicenza and performed in the Edinburgh Festival accompanied by Andras Schiff, as well as singing Die Schöpfung conducted by Josep Pons.

As Marguerite, in Faust by Gounod / Zürich Opernhaus

In 2002 she played Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, debuted as Micaëla in Carmen, performed in a new production of Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria and toured in Japan giving recitals. The following year she had one of the biggest successes of her career with Händel’s Il trionfo del tempo e il disinganno, in the regie of J.Flimm; she gave a recital in Las Palmas for the Philharmonic Society and another in London, she sang Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes, debuted in Montecarlo with Don Pasquale, she returned to Japan to give various recitals and ended the year with two galas in the Teatro Real. In 2004 she added four new roles to her repertoire: Tigrane from Radamisto (Händel), Blanche from Dialogues des carmélites (Poulenc), Mélisande from Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy) and King Arthur (Purcell), which was performed in the Salzburg Festival and is also on DVD. And in September, she made her debut in the role of Dori from La grotta di Trofonio (Salieri).

. In 2005, two very special debut take place, Ann Truelove in The Rake’s Progress, one of the most difficult operas in the repertoire and the role of Rosina in at the Teather an der Wien, conducted by Fabio Luisi. In the following years many new roles keep her very busy: Le Cid by Massenet, Königskinder by Humperdinck (alongside Jonas Kauffmann) in Zurich, Händel’s Semele (with Cecilia Bartoli and brought out on DVD by Decca) as well as a triumph with her first Amelia (Simon Boccanegra) sharing emotion and joy with legendary .

More recently Mrs. Rey has had the opportunity to sing a good number of Verdi heroines, being one of her best caracters in her repertoire, Otello's Desdemona as well as Amelia from Masnadieri.

As Morgana, in Alcina by Handel/ Theater an der Wien - Vienna

As well as her unstoppable opera career she also performs recital, a discipline which she took up from at the age of 16 and which has led her to take part in some of the most prestigious events dedicated to the genre in Europe. Her magnetic personality on stage makes her be one of the most interesting Liederist of her generation. Her interest in poetry has resulted in the publication of a book of her writings, some of which have been set to music by the composers Antoni Parera and Antón García Abril. Isabel Rey is especially interested in the world of teaching. She is very demanded to teach for her pedagogic skills and has been invited to diverse conservatories around Europe. Her compromise with the young singers has moved her to offer lectures and masterclasses in many european opera houses and festivals.

. As well as the aforementioned Semele, outstanding DVDs of her performances include Don Giovanni (Donna Anna), Le nozze di Figaro (Susana), Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Minerva), King Arthur, La Finta Giardiniera (all conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt), Pelléas et Mélisande with Franz Welser-Möst and Don Pasquale, alongside Juan Diego Flórez and conducted by Nello Santi, as well as a varied discography, such as a recital with the guitarrist Ichiro Suzuki, a classical Christmas album called Canciones para la Navidad (Songs for Christmas) and with Alejandro Zabala on piano and The passion of Spain, with romances and duets of with José Carreras. And lately a new release with classic spanish songs "Mi corazon con alas" with the first recording of the songs written with her poems.

Isabel Rey collaborates with the José Carreras Foundation for the Fight Against Leukemia and with the Clarós Foundation dedicated to the support of acute deafness through research, prevention and education.

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. ISABEL REY Repertory

Composer Opera Rol Bellini, Vincenzo I Capuletti e i Montecchi Giulietta Bizet, Georges Les Pêcheurs de Perles Leila Carmen Micaela Debussy, Claude Pélleas et Mélisande Mélisande Donizetti, Gaetano Stuarda L’elisir d’amore Adina Gluck, Christoph W. Orfeo ed Euridice Euridice Humperdink E. Die Königskinder Gänsemagd Gounod, Charles Roméo et Juliette Juliette Faust Margherite Massenet, Jules Manon Mozart, W. Le Nozze di Figaro Contessa Cosí fan tutte Fiordiligi Don Giovanni Donna Anna Idomeneo Ilia Die Zauberflöte Pamina Offenbach, Jacques Les Contes d’Hoffmann Antonia Poulenc, Francis Dialogues de Carmélites Blanche Les mammelles des Tiresias Thérèse La voix humaine Elle Puccini, Giacomo La Bohème Mimí Liù Turandot Rossini, Gioachino Il Barbiere di Siviglia Rosina Guglielmo Tell Matilde Strawinsky, Igor The Rake’s Progress Anne Truelove Verdi, Giuseppe Simone Boccanegra Amelia Traviata Violetta Luisa Miller Luisa Masnadieri Amalia Otello Desdemona Concert repertoire

Composer Work Bach, J.S. Magnificat Beethoven, Ludwig van 9th Simphony Missa Solemnis Brahms,J. Deutsches Requiem Boccherini, Luigi Arie Accademiche Conti, Francesco Il martirio di San Lorenzo (Angelo) Faure, Gabriel Requiem Galuppi, B. Magnificat für sopran, Chor und Orchester Gounod, Charles Gallia Händel, Georg F. Saul (Michal – Merab) Apollo e Daphne (Daphne) Jephta (Iphis) The Messiah Haydn, Joseph Schöpfungmesse Die Schöpfung Honegger Le roi David Mozart, Wolfgang A. Requiem KV626 Exsultate Jubilate Grosse Messe C moll KV427 Messe in C KV257 Vesperae solennes de confessore KV339 Krönungsmesse KV317 Pergolesi, Giovanni B. Stabat Mater

Rossini, Gioachino Stabat Mater Schubert, Franz Messe in Es Messe in G Dur Strauss, R. Vier letzte Lieder Villalobos, Heitor Bacchianas brasileiras

. DISCOGRAPHY

CD Varios autores Zarzuelas: The Passion of Spain Conductor: Enrique Ricci/ Rey y Carreras TELDEC

Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro Conductor: Harnoncourt/Rey, Hampson, Margiono, etc. TELDEC

Varios autores Natsu no Omoide Ichiro Suzuki, guitar / Rey DISCMEDI

Varios autores Canciones para la Navidad Alejandro Zabala, piano/ Rey DISCMEDI

César Cano Te Deum Conductor: Galduf /Rey, Metxaca, Cid y otros.

Rossini, Puccini, Boccherini Giovanna d’Arco, Crisantemi, Stabat Mater Conductor: Frizza / Rey y Barcellona DECCA

Varios Conductor: Bragado /Rey y Gavanelli Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León

Varios autores Damas del canto Rey, De los Ángeles, Lorengar, Caballé, etc. RTVE MUSICA

Recital:Granados-Turina-Montsalvatge-Obradors Alejandro Zabala (piano) / Rey DISCMEDI NEW Varios autores Gala lírica Conductor: Ros Marbá y Collado/ Rey, Caballé, De los Ángeles, Kraus, Carreras, Pons, González 500 CENTENARIO Fernández Caballero El Dúo de la Africana Conductor: López Cobos/ Rey, Rodríguez, Orozco DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON

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Mozart Don Giovanni Conductor: Harnoncourt / Rey, Bartoli, Gilfry, Polgar ARTHAUS

Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro Conductor: Harnoncourt / Rey, Chausson, Mei, Gilfry TDK

Monteverdi Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria Conductor: Harnoncourt / Rey, Kasarova, Kauffmann ARTHAUS

Purcell King Arthur Conductor: Harnoncourt / Rey, Bonney, Shade EUROARTS Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande Conductor: Welser Möst/ Rey, Gilfry, Volle TDK

Mozart La finta giardinera Conductor: Harnoncourt / Rey, Mei, Strehl TDK

Donizetti Don Pasquale Conductor: Santi / Rey, Flórez, Raimondi DECCA

Handel Semele Conductor: Christie / Rey, Bartoli, Remmert DECCA

Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro : : Conductor:López Cobos/Rey,Frittoli,Teziers,Pisaroni

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