Equally at home in the lyrico spinto and dramatic coloratura repertoire, soprano Martine Reyners made an important debut at the Alden-Biesen Summer Opera Festival in 2007, as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus. 

Miss Reyners has since gone on to perform the title role in Donizetti's Emilia di Liverpool in a production created by the European Opera Center to celebrate the opening festivities of the Liverpool, European Cultural City 2008, which was revived in Bremen and Gdansk. Her performance in England was acclaimed by Seen and Heard International: “Limited opportunity is not what comes the way of the eponymous role sung by the Belgian lyric coloratura soprano Martine Reyners, and how! Hers was a considerable vocal and histrionic achievement. Slim, even slight, she sang strongly and acted with whole body conviction, her eyes and arms being particularly communicative. Her voice is strong and with a wide variety of colour across its considerable range allied to vocal flexibility of a high order. Miss Reyners produced a consummate performance that gave focus to the whole of the action of the opera….She concluded the performance with hair-raising singing of the rondo finale from the 1828 version.”

Miss Reyners debuted the roles of Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Tosca in Alden-Biesen in 2009 and 2008 respectively. Both productions  were repeated at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.  She will be Aïda for the Idée-Fixe production in Gent, Brussels and Liège in late summer 2009.

Miss Reyners has performed with the orchestras Il Fondamento, I Fiamminghi and the Flanders Radio Orchestra and has collaborated with conductors Dirk Brossé, Rudolf Werthen, Fabrice Bollon and Koen Kessels.

Martine Reyners began her musical education as a pianist and went on to pursue the art of singing at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven and then at the Royal Conservatoire of in Gent, where she obtained her Master of Music in vocal performance.  She participated in master classes with Noëlle Barker, Ute Trekel-Burckhardt, Hilda De Groote and Serge Wilfart.

July 2009 - Please destroy any previously released version