Rebecca de Almeida

• Rebecca de Almeida started her musical career as a pianist, having switched to voice just a couple of years before the pandemic hit, while pregnant with her first child, and since then she has fiercely pursued this true love of hers.
• • Winner of the “Villa-Lobos Museum Competition” - Rio de Janeiro RJ (piano)
• • Winner of the II National Piano Competition "Jovem Destaque” Rio de Janeiro, RJ
• • Winner of the “Villa-Lobos Museum Competition” - Rio de Janeiro RJ – May 2008
• • 2o Prize at XX "Art-Livre" Piano Competition São Paulo, SP
• • 1o Prize at XXVI Latin-American "Rosa Mística" Piano Competition” Curitiba, PR – Oc- tober 2007
• • Scholarship from the Institutional Program of Extension Scholarships "PIBEX" - Rio de Janeiro, RJ 2005 - 2008

Brazilian Mezzo soprano “Rebecca de Almeida gave a staggeringly commanding performance as Carmen. I will be following her meteoric rise” said Lisa Reisman of the New Haven Register and Shore Life about her debut as the title role of Bizet’s Carmen with OTC in 2022.

A couple years before the pandemic Rebecca switched her career as a pianist to become an opera singer, and she is quickly establishing herself as one of the leading mezzo sopranos in Connecticut. She has performed a variety of roles throughout the US, Latin America and Europe. Her operatic roles include Carmen in Bizet’s Carmen, Giulio Cesare in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Orfeo in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Dorabella in Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte, and Count Orlovsky in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus.

Rebecca brings an “exhilarating presence and transparent energy to the stage.” She has been praised by Tribuna CT for her “luscious voice and warm timbre with a soothing, yet penetrating quality.”

Rebecca de Almeida made her debut at Carnegie Hall (in concert), and her debut in Mexico as Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni in the 22-23 season. She is also excited and so grateful to return as Donna Elvira with her beloved CLO, as a soloist with the New Haven Chorale to sing at Woolsey Hall, Yale in Duruflé’s Requiem, and to have her role debut as Charlotte in Massenet’s Werther.