Rebecca Jo Loeb is a lyric mezzo soprano specializing in contemporary repertoire who has sung in opera houses, concert halls, and recital halls around the world. In 2022 she performed the roles of Wife/Doreen/Waitress 1 in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Greek at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the world premiere of Omar by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels at the Spoleto Festival, and the alto soloist in the world premiere of Requiem by George Tsontakis with the Albany Symphony. Other engagements from this season included digital and live concerts with New York Festival of Song, covering the role of Fyordor at Metropolitan Opera in Boris Godunov and singing a Blumenmädchen in Parsifal at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Cancelled performances due to Covid-19 included performing Garderoberie/Gymnasiast/ein Groom in Lulu with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera, Lumee in Ellen Reid’s Pulitzer Prize winning p r i s m at The Kennedy Center and for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, Alto soloist in St. John Passion with the Florida Orchestra , and The Duchess with Emmanuel Music in Weill’s The Firebrand of Florence at the Tanglewood Festival . During the 2019-2020 Rebecca joined the Oldenburg Ballet for Sciarrino’s Vanitas at the Staatstheater Oldenburg and the New York Festival of Song for Blitzstein’s No for an Answer and Weill’s Der Silbersee. During the 2018-19 season she debuted with Los Angeles Opera and Beth Morrison Projects as Lumee in Reid’s p r i s m, made her debut at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile in Lulu, returned to the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Zweite Dame in die Zauberflöte and Mercedes in Carmen and for Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with Donald Runnicles conducting, returned to Carnegie Hall with the American Symphony Orchestra in Key of Dreams and toured with New York Festival of Song to reprise Bernstein’s Arias and Barcarolles. 

Ms. Loeb spent five seasons in the ensembles of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Hamburgische Staatsoper, at which her performances included Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Rosina in Il barbiere di Sviglia, Siebel in Faust, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, the Fox in The Cunning Little Vixen, Oreste in La Belle Helene, Francis in Britten’s Gloriana, Mercedes in Carmen, Dryad in Ariadne auf Naxos, the Page in Salome, Zweite Magd in Elektra, and Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte. Following her performances of Bellante in Händel’s Almira in Hamburg, she reprised the role at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alte Musik. 

Other engagements included her debuts with the Metropolitan Opera as Flora in La traviata; Oper Köln as The Fox in The Cunning Little Vixen; Dutch National Opera and Teatro Municipal de Santiago as Eine Theater Garderoberie/Gymnasiast/ein Groom in Lulu, directed by William Kentridge; Festival d`Aix-en-Provence as the Second Angel and Marie in the world premiere of Benjamin’s Written on Skin; Dallas Opera as Fyodor in Boris Godunov, Theater Freiburg as Susan in Weill’s Love Life, and Teatro Regio di Torino as a Blumenmädchen in Parsifal 

In concert Rebecca has performed with the Hamburg Ballet in Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s St. John Passion and with the CPE Bach Chor as soloist in Bach’s St. Mark Passion and The Jenny and Johnny Project at both the Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau and the Brecht Festival in Augsburg. She joined James Conlon in a concert performance of Mahagonny Sonspiel at the Ravinia Festival and sang Mendelssohn s Midsummer Night’s Dream with the New York City Ballet, Bach s Mass in B minor at Carnegie Hall, and made her Alice Tully Hall debut singing Bolcom s acclaimed Cabaret Songs. Other roles to her credit are Meg Page in Falstaff, Grimgerde in Die Walküre, Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor, Zweite Magd and Dritte Magd in Elektra, Jenny in The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Elmire in Tartuffe, Paquette in Candide, Madame Brillante in L’italiana in Londra, Dorthée in Cendrillon, and Second Witch and the Spirit in Dido and Aeneas. Additionally, she has performed with the Mark Morris Dance Company, The Glimmerglass Festival, New Hampshire Symphony, Tanglewood Music Center, Central City Opera, and Aspen Opera Theatre. 

A champion of new music, Rebecca Jo has recorded songs of Stephan Wolpe and Ursula Monk on Bridge Records and performed songs of Wolpe in Weill Concert Hall. She performed roles in Lucrezia and Bastianello (operas commissioned for the New York Festival of Song by William Bolcom and John Musto, respectively) at Moab Music Festival, the role of the Swiss Grandmother in Adams’ Death of Klinghoffer with Mr. Adams conducting, as a one-woman opera in Sciarrino s Vanitas at the Hamburg State Opera s Black Box Theater, and the songs of Tom Cipullo and Ricky Ian Gordon with the composers at the piano. Equally at home in musical theater, Rebecca Jo joined the Boston Pops as Carrie in Carousel, Petra in A Little Night Music, and on its Bernstein Tour. She made her Broadway debut Ladies Who Sing Sondheim starring Angela Lansbury and Patti Lupone. 

Her awards include a Sullivan Educational Award, the Curt Englehorn Scholarship from the Opera Foundation, first prize in the Lotte Lenya Competition, a 2009 Career Bridges grant, and the Ginney and John Starkey Young Artist Award at Central City Opera. She is a proud graduate of the Juilliard School, The Manhattan School of Music, and especially the University of Michigan, from which she received the Stanley Medal.