LATEST NEWS

5/11
Rebecca will reunite with the band Sparks to perform The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 25th at the Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood! Presented for the first time in a live setting, in what might best be described as a "film-to-be" form, the cast includes Ron & Russell Mael (aka Sparks), Guy Maddin, Peter Franzén as Ingmar Bergman, Ann Magnuson as Greta Garbo and Rebecca reprising her role as the Hollywood Starlet. For more information, visit the L.A. Film Festival or the official website of Sparks.

4/11
Arizona Opera has invited Rebecca to return as a Marion Roose Pullin Artist in Residence for the 2011/2012 season! For more information on the roles she will be performing, go to the Schedule Page or visit the Arizona Opera website.

12/10
Randy Lewis of the L.A. Times picks The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman as one of his top 10 albums of the year! "Their song cycle, operatic in its musical and conceptual scope, follows Bergman from his 1956 international breakthrough at Cannes through a comically fantastical journey to Hollywood, where the forces of commerce and blind avarice wage a battle for Bergman's artistic soul. If Broadway's looking for a modern day musical of real invention and substance, this is it." Click here to purchase the album from Sparks or here from itunes.

9/10
Check out the Media Page for new audio clips of songs by Marcus Sjöwall recorded at The Bridge in Glendale, California last month!

8/10
Rebecca joins Arizona Opera's Marion Roose Pullin Opera Studio for the 2010/2011 season! As a member of the Studio, she will perform Edith in Pirates of Penzance and Frasquita in Carmen and will cover the roles of Micaëla (Carmen), Liù (Turandot) and Desdemona (Otello). For more information on performances, visit the Arizona Opera website.

7/10
In the Garret, a song cycle by Christina Whitten Thomas that Rebecca premiered in 2008, received Second Place in the 2010 NATS Art Song Award Competition. To hear an excerpt of the premiere performance, visit the Media Page.

1/1/10
The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman, the latest musical venture by American rock and pop band Sparks that features Rebecca as the "Hollywood Starlet" received five stars by Andy Gill in The Independent. Including the record among his 20 albums of the year, Gill wrote: "Sharply scripted, with that sly, knowing touch so typical of Sparks, it's also scored with scrupulous intelligence, the arrangements drawing on a range of apt influences, from Kurt Weill to jazz, pop and rock, and the orchestrations ingeniously duplicitous, wistful and sinister, as the action dictates. It may well turn out to be the pinnacle of Sparks' career, and certainly has an ambition well beyond the usual remit of popular culture." Click here to buy the album from Sparks or here to buy the album from itunes.

12/1/09
Rebecca makes her Carnegie Hall solo debut! On November 29, she was asked to replace a soloist in a world premiere performance of a new work, A Carol Fantasy, composed by Stephen J. Edwards and orchestrated by Marcus Sjöwall. She learned the music on the plane to New York and performed on November 30, 2009, in Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium. Candace Wicke conducted the Continuo Arts Foundation Symphonic Chorus and Orchestra.