Maria Nazarova

The soprano Maria Nazarova made house debuts during the 2021/22 season at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence as Naiad (Ariadne auf Naxos), at the Stuttgart State Opera as Adele (Die Fledermaus) and at the Hamburg State Opera as Adina (L’elisir d’amore). She has also appeared at La Scala, Milan, as Masha / Prilepa (The Queen of Spades).

Other recent appearances include the title role in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and at the Opéra National de Lyon, and Adele at the New National Theatre in Tokyo. She has also sung Despina (Così fan tutte) at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Lisa (La sonnambula) at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich and Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) in Vilnius with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra.

From 2015 to 2020 Maria Nazarova was a member of the ensemble of Vienna State Opera, where among other roles she sang Adele, Adina, Musetta (La bohème), Oscar (Un ballo in maschera), Despina, Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Fiakermilli (Arabella), Clorinda (La Cenerentola), Woodbird (Siegfried), Woglinde (Götterdämmerung), Sandman and Dew Fairy (Hänsel und Gretel), Sophie (Werther), Yniold (Pelléas et Mélisande) and Kitty in Johannes Maria Staud’s Die Weiden. From the 2022/23 season she will return to the ensemble of Vienna State Opera, and will sing roles including Frasquita (Carmen), Jano (Jenůfa), Woglinde (Das Rheingold) and Woodbird.

She studied at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and at the Vienna Conservatory, where she appeared in student productions as Contessa di Folleville (Il viaggio a Reims), Serpina (La serva padrona), Madame Herz (Der Schauspieldirektor) and Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte).

She has won several prizes in international singing competitions, among them first prizes at the Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino in 2015 and at the Les Azuriales International Singing Competition in 2014.