at Aix en Provence, with Dolores Costoyas
as Cleofe, in Handel's Resurrezione

Mezzo-soprano Mariana Rewerski is a multifaceted and dynamic artist. A voice of lyric beauty and great versatility, she has portrayed many of the important roles from the standard repertoire, while also seeking out less often performed works ranging from the medieval and baroque to the new music of today´s up-and-coming composers. At home in opera, chamber music, oratorio and song, she is establishing herself internationally as a rare talent

While earning a diploma in piano from the National Conservatory in Buenos Aires, she won first prize in the Academia Bach Shell CAPSA Voice Competition in 2000. She was immediately accepted into Teatro Colón's Institute of Art. where she was chosen to sing Cherubino at the Teatro Colón, where she would later return to sing Dorabella, Hermia (Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream), and Charlotte.She joined other companies in Argentina, debuting important roles including Carmen, Dorabella, Isabella, Cherubino, Second Lady, The Neighbour in Stravinsky´s Mavra, roles in L´enfant et les sortilèges, and the title role in Offenbach´s La belle Hélène.

Mariana was then invited to the International Opera Studio of the Opernhaus Zurich where she sang a. o. Clarice in Rossini´s La pietra del paragone. Establishing her home in Europe, she rounded out her training with studies in Milan and Paris and made European debuts as Hermia at the Opéra de Nice and Zerlina in Switzerland.

As a passionate interpreter of baroque music, she was sung Ottavia in Monteverdi’s L´incoronazione di Poppea with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, Dido in Purcell´s Dido and Aeneas, Euridice in Charpentier´s La descente d´Orphée aux enfers, Cavalieri´s Rappresentatione d’Anima et di Corpo, Cavalli´s La virtù degli strali d´amore and Gli amori d´Apollo e di Dafne, Rameau´s Les Indes Galantes, Argene in Vivaldi´s L´Olimpiade in Schwetzingen and the title-role of Handel's Rinaldo at the National Theatre in Prague, Luxembourg, Rennes and Caen with Collegium 1704 conducted by Vaclav Luks.
She was also was profoundly influenced, both artistically and personally, by the great singer and musicologist Ann-Marie Deschamps. It was with her ensemble Venance Fortunat that Mariana was introduced to the performance practices of medieval chant and the interpretation of manuscripts.

Additional theaters where Mariana has performed include the Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid), Teatro Politeama Garibaldi (Palermo, Italia), Teatro del Círculo (Rosario, Argentina), Teatro Arriaga (Bilbao) and festivals such as the Prague Spring Festival and Ostrava´s St. Wenceslas Music Festival, Festival de Sully et Loiret, Festival de Vézelay, Festival de Pontoise, Festival de Sablé, Festival de la Chaise Dieu and Festival d'Ambronay, Festival de Wallonie, Festival de Flandres and in Latino America-Baroque Music Festival in Chiquitos, (Bolivia) and in the Oficina de Musica Antiga in Curitiba (Brasil).

She made her debut on concert stage in the Teatro Colón with the Bach Magnificat and Vivaldi Gloria. Her concert repertoire ranges from Bach & Zelenka major works to Beethoven´s 9^th Symphony.

An avid recital singer, she has a repertoire spanning a broad range of styles and languages. Since 2001, she has enjoyed collaborating with pianist Valeria Briatico.

Mariana can be heard on recording as Pippo in Rossini´s La gazza ladra at the Wildbad Rossini Festival under the baton of Alberto Zedda (Naxos live recording), as Venus in Cavalli´s Gli amori di Apollo e di Dafne with the Elyma Ensemble (Gabriel Garrido), as the Israelite Man in Handel´s Judas Maccabaeus with the ensemble Les Agremens under Leonardo G. Alarcón, as Maddalena in I Penitenti al Sepolchro del Redentore by Zelenka and as Marta in Oscar Strasnoy´s world-première Un retour.

Upcoming engagements include Haydn´s Stabat Mater with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Cavalli´s La Didone in Caen, Luxembourg and Paris under the conduction of William Christie, Purcell´s Dido & Aeneas (Dido) and Strasnoy´s Un retour (Marta) in Paris and Marseille.

Saison 2011-12