Melba Ramos
Melba Ramos ( * Aguadilla / Puerto Rico ) is an American singer in the vocal range soprano.
Life and artistic work
Your vocal training she received in San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico at the Colburn Conservatory of Music. Internationally important voice teachers they had coined: Giuseppe di Stefano, Anna Moffo, and Renata Scotto John Donermann. After her stage debut as Despina in Cosi fan tutte was the artist from 1989 to 1992 Member of the Opera Studio of the Cologne Opera, followed by an engagement at the Wuppertal Opera House. Furthermore Melba Ramos guest at the music stages of Berlin, London, Barcelona, Valencia, Santiago de Compostela, Vienna, Bonn, Bremen, Osnabruck, Mannheim, Bielefeld, Kassel, Salzburg etc. They also guested at the 2001 Schwetzingen Festival, at the 2002 Salzburg Festival in 2008 at the operas Air Gars am Kamp and 2010 at the Opera Festival Heidenheim. The artist is since the season 2004/2005 a permanent member of the Vienna Volksoper. She is the mother of a daughter.
Melba Ramos works (s ) with the greatest conductors of the time together as Marcus R. Bosch, Gustav Kuhn, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, James Conlon, Vladimir Jurowski, Marc Piollet, Christoph Spering etc.
In addition to her stage presence Melba Ramos has worked as a recital and concert singer. Here, her repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary and includes the genres of opera, operetta, oratorio and song.
Role repertoire (selection)
- Despina and Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte
- Gilda in Rigoletto
- Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor
- Pamina and Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute
- Violetta in La Traviata
- Donna Anna in Don Giovanni
- Norina in Don Pasquale
- Liu in Turandot
- Micaela and Frasquita Carmen
- Tosca in Tosca
- Saffi in The Gypsy Baron
- Beatrice in Boccaccio
- Clivia Clivia in
- Bess in Porgy and Bess
- Annie in Der Freischütz
- Rosina in The Barber of Seville
- Aida in Aida
- Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos
- Vittelia in La Clemenza di Tito
Awards
Discography
- Antonio Salieri La Passione 2004
- Giuseppi Verdi Requiem 2005
Source
- The Magazine. Opera Festival Heidenheim 2010, Heidenheim 2010, pp. 4-5