| Scott Rubén
La Marca |
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| Scott
Rubén La Marca is a Vocal Fellow alumnus of the Yale Opera at the Yale
School of Music. Proudly of Latino and Italian heritage, Scott comes from
an Ecuadorian and Sicilian family whose traditions and artistry have profoundly
shaped both his identity and musical voice. His passion for vocal music stretches from the elegance of the Baroque repertoire to contemporary works, from virtuosic coloratura writing to the timeless spirit of the Great American Songbook. Scott appeared as Peter Quint and the Prologue in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw with Yale Opera. Upcoming performances include Azor in Zémire et Azor and Normanno in Lucia di Lammermoor with the Berkshire Opera Festival. He will also join ARTEK as a fellow this spring for a presentation of Il primo libro de madrigali. This winter, Scott performed the role of Ferrando in Così fan tutte with Yale Opera, having previously study-covered the role at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Recent appearances also include the tenor soloist in the premiere of Christopher Theofanidis’ oratorio Siddhartha, She at Aspen, a role he later reprised with the Yale Philharmonia. He additionally originated the role of Charles Darwin in Darwin en Patagonia and performed Edoardo in La cambiale di matrimonio. In 2024, Scott participated in the Schwab Vocal Rising Stars residency at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. He has also appeared in recital and concert with the New York Festival of Song, the Art Song Preservation Society of New York, Sun Valley Opera and Broadway, the Yale Philharmonia, and the Aspen Festival Orchestra. He is a recipient of the 2025 Emerging Artists Foundation grant. Beyond singing, Scott’s artistic interests extend across several disciplines. Having performed in high school musicals and learned tango from his grandfather as a child while listening to the recordings of Carlos Gardel, he developed an early fascination with vocal expression and storytelling through music. He is also proficient in piano and guitar. Scott speaks Spanish, Italian, and intermediate French. A passionate cook and lifelong athlete, Scott was captain of his high school track team, and even broke his county record through running a mile in four minutes and forty-eight seconds. Before fully pursuing music, he studied architecture at the Pratt Institute, which deepened his connection to visual composition and design. He remains an active visual artist, working primarily in oil on canvas and drawing inspiration from painting, architecture, and the visual arts in his creative life. 5/26 |