Rayfield Artists - Lina Markeby


	Home News Artists Links Contact	LINA MARKEBY Mezzo-soprano full biography \| photo "Lina Markeby plays the oppressed lover Arcane with such rapt intensity, and such refined vocal artistry, that she commands total attention" - Michael Church, The Independent, October 2007 Lina Markeby was born and undertook her initial vocal training in Sweden, before coming to study in the UK at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Lina is continuing her studies with Ameral Gunson. After graduating in 2006 she sang Idamante Idomeneo for Chelsea Opera Group, as well as Mozart opera galas with the Monteverdi Choir, where she sang Idamante and Sesto in extracts from Idomeneo and La Clemenza di Tito respectively. In 2007 she sang Third Sprite Rusalka and the title role in Peter Brook's La Tragédie de Carmen at the Wexford Festival, Messagiera/Ninfa in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo at Drottningholm and Arcane Teseo for English Touring Opera. Lina's other major operatic performances have been with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, singing a small role in its recent touring production of Idomeneo and Second Woman Dido & Aeneas, directed by Deborah Warner, at the 2006 Wiener Festwochen, revived in Paris during 2008. In 2008 Lina sang Dorabella Così fan tutte for Opera by Definition, Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro and Third Lady Die Zauberflöte for the Armonico Consort, Innkeeper's Wife / Woodpecker Cunning Little Vixen for Opera Project, Zephyrus Apollo and Hyacinth and Lisinga Le Cinesi for Bampton Classical Opera, Meg Page Falstaff for Opera Project and covered the role of Arsace Partenope for English National Opera, before heading to the Opéra Comique in Paris for the first of the revivals of the Les Arts Florissants production of Dido and Aeneas. 2009 sees Lina perform further revivals of Dido and Aeneas at the Vienna Festival and Netherlands Opera, and After Dido for English National Opera and the Young Vic, directed by Katie Mitchell. Future highlights include Dorabella Così fan tutte and Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro for l'Atélier Lyrique de Tourcoing in 2010, conducted by Jean-Claude Malgoire. This short biography is for information only and should not be reproduced. Please download a full biography here.