Maria was born in 1998 in Kemerovo (Russia). In 2017 she completed her studies at the Novosibirsk Musical College where she got a professional diploma in vocal performance and continued her vocal education in the Gnessin Academy of Music. In September 2017, she joined the Young Artist Program of the Bolshoi Theatre and started working with the Head of the Program, Prof. Dmitry Vdovin and other prominent coaches.
She has taken part in numerous chamber concerts at the Bolshoi Theatre’s Beethoven Hall. In Summer 2018, she took part in the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro where she sang Melibea in Teatro Rossini. In November 2018, she returned to Pesaro to perform the mezzo-soprano part in Stabat Mater by Rossini. Maria is the 1st Prize winner of the International Vocal Competitions Christmas Assembly in 2015 in Saint Petersburg, the Natalia Spiller International Vocal Competition in Moscow, 2018 and the XXVI Glinka International Vocal Competition in Kazan, 2019. The highlight of her 2018/19 season was her stunning performance at the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition in St Petersburg where she was awarded 1st Prize. Maria participated in a winners’ concert in Vladivostok, in Saint Petersburg and in Moscow with Maestro Valery Gergiev. <
Her repertoire includes Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri and Melibea in Il Viaggio a Reims by Rossini, as well Lel’ in The Snow Maiden and Lubava in Sadko by Rimsky-Korsakov, Olga in Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky, and Bradamante in Alcina by Händel. In 2020, she made her debut in the Bolshoi theatre as Lubava in Sadko and as the Spring in The Snow Maiden in Novosibirsk Opera Theatre. In July 2022 she will be a participant in Bregenz Opera Festival where she will sing the title mezzo-soprano role, Isabella, in L’Italiana in Algeri.
