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Mezzo Soprano
Rihab Chaieb
"a tour de force of singing and acting"
- Kevin Wells, Bachtrack
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Beethoven, L.v. - Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 - Alto
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Paolo Carignani, Conductor
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Beethoven, L.v. - Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 - Alto
LA Philharmonic
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Bizet - Carmen - Title role
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Biography Highlights
Upcoming
Carmen with Glyndebourne Festival and with Los Angeles Philharmonic under G.Dudamel, Dorabella Cosi fan tutte at Los Angeles Opera, Fenena Nabucco at Deutsche Oper Berlin and Canadian Opera Company, Maddalena Rigoletto at The Metropolitan Opera, appearances with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Y.Nézet-Séguin, Washington National Symphony under G.Noseda, Orchestre symphonique de Québec and Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, debuts at Gran Teatre del Liceu, Bregenz Festival, Opéra de Montréal, and return to the Bayerische Staatsoper.
Recent
Debut as Charlotte Werther at Opernhaus Zürich, Claire Melancholia with the Royal Swedish Opera, Dorabella Così fan tutte at Seiji Ozawa Music Academy, Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro with Los Angeles Opera, Fenena Nabucco at Bayerische Staatsoper, Dorabella Così fan tutte with Washington National Opera, La mère Meryem Voyage vers l’espoir at Grand Théâtre de Genève, Penelope Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria with Ensemble I Gemelli, Carmen at Canadian Opera Company, Calgary Opera, and Palm Beach Opera, Nefertiti Akhnaten with Metropolitan Opera.
Concert appearances include Verdi's Requiem at Hollywood Bowl with Los Angeles Philharmonic under G.Dudamel and at Bergen International Festival under Edward Gardner; Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 with Y.Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra for Handel’s Messiah under Richard Egarr, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra with Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été under Otto Tausk and Toronto Symphony Orchestra under Gustavo Gimeno in Beethoven’s Symphony No.9, Das Lied von der Erde at the Rockport Music Festival.
Discography includes both Bach’s Mass in B minor and Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 with Orchestre Métropolitain under Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the latter released on Deutsche Grammophon’s Digital Stage and Penelope Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria with Ensemble I Gemelli under Emiliano Gonzalez Toro.
Awards
Among a number of grants, Third Prize at the 2018 Operalia Competition, Grand Prix at the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, and prizes at both the George London Foundation Competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
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Glyndebourne || Bizet - Carmen - Official trailer
Glyndebourne || Bizet - Carmen - Official trailer
Mozart - La clemenza di Tito - Deh per questo istante solo
Mozart - La clemenza di Tito - Deh per questo istante solo
Masssenet - Werther - Ah! Mon courage m’abandonne!
Masssenet - Werther - Ah! Mon courage m’abandonne!
Reviews & Press
Canadian Opera Company - Bizet - Carmen - Carmen
Chaieb is stunning in the leading role, with a razor sharp presence that really suits the larger-than-life persona that Carmen has taken on in both the story, and in popular culture. She sings through the repertoire beautifully, but puts equally as much into her acting and delivery as she does her vocal performance to really sell the elusive, strong aspects of the character.
- Isabella Perrone , Broadway World
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Washington National Opera - Mozart - Cosi fan Tutte - Dorabella
Chaieb was simply a dream of a Dorabella, with her big, easily expressive features, trim figure (looking utterly lovely in Lynly A. Saunders’s elegant costumes), and darkly alluring mezzo-soprano voice, vibrant but never too much so, with an unfailing communicative circuit running straight from the heart to the vocal cords.
- Patrick Dillon , Opera Canada
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Metropolitan Opera New York - Philip Glass - Akhnaten - Nefertiti
...the mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb, the cast’s newcomer, as Nefertiti, Akhnaten’s wife. Long presented at the Met in operas from the 18th and 19th centuries, she was singing a new kind of role on Thursday, one she seized with assurance and ringing might. [...] her lush, vibrato-rich sound was a productive contrast to [Anthony Roth Costanzo] ethereal purity — she grounded and he celestial, they met somewhere in the middle for their long, hypnotically sensual love duet.
