In the upcoming season, Maria will return to the Vienna State Opera in roles such as Adina ("L'elisir d'amore"), Despina ("Così fan tutte"), Sister Constance ("Dialogues des Carmélites"), Brigitta ("Iolanta"), Amanda ("Le Grand Macabre"), and Najade ("Ariadne auf Naxos"). She will also make her role debut as Gretel in "Hänsel und Gretel." 

 

In the 2024/25 season, Maria Nazarova returned to Teatro alla Scala as Giacinta in a new production of "L’Orontea" by Antonio Cesti. As an ensemble member at the Vienna State Opera, she performed as Despina in "Così fan tutte" and Musetta in "La Bohème", and made her acclaimed role debut as Pamina in "Die Zauberflöte". She also appeared as Brigitta in a new production of "Iolanta" and as Prilepa in "The Queen of Spades" by Tchaikovsky with Anna Netrebko as Lisa. A special highlight of the last season was Maria's performance at the Opening of the Vienna Opera Ball together with Nadine Sierra and Juan Diego Flórez.

 

Previous season highlights at the Vienna State Opera include Lisa in "La Sonnambula", Adele in "Die Fledermaus",

Amanda in the new production of "Le Grand Macabre", Jemmy in "Guillaume Tell", Susanna in the new

production of "Le Nozze di Figaro", Sophie in "Werther", Adina in "L'Elisir d'Amore", Sister Constance in the new

production of "Dialogues des Carmelites", Clorinda in "La Cenerentola", Frasquita in "Carmen".

This summer Maria made her debut at the Summer Festival Oper Burg Gars in Austria portraying Adina in a

new production of "L'Elisir d'Amore".

Among Nazarova’s recent appearances are her debuts with Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, at the

Staatsoper Berlin as Najade, and at Stuttgart State Opera she sang Adele as well as

jumped in as Adina. She performed the role of Prilepa in the new production of "La Dame de Pique" at Teatro

alla Scala, was invited to sing Adina at Hamburg State Opera, and returned as Papagena in

"Die Zauberflöte" at the Salzburg Festival.

Other engagements include a series of debuts with New National Theatre Tokyo as Adele, Festival d'Aix en

Provence and Opéra de Lyon in the new production of "The Golden Cockerel" by Tschaikovsky as the Golden

Cockerel. Maria made her debut at Teatro alla Scala as Adele, and debut as Despina at the stage of Bolshoi Theatre Moscow.

Maria became a member of the ensemble of the Wiener Staatsoper in 2015 where she was first heard

as Oscar, Sophie (Werther), Yniold, Fiakermilli, Waldvogel, Barbarina, among other roles. During her

studies in Vienna Conservatory at the Opera Studio, Maria was invited to sing Gretel in the new

production of "Hänsel und Gretel" with Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, followed by her debut as

Lisa in "La Sonnambula" at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich.

Before studying at the Vienna Conservatory, Maria graduated with honours from the Russian

Academy of Theatre and Arts in Moscow, as well as a Master’s degree at the Universität Mozarteum

Salzburg. Maria Nazarova is a prizewinner of several international voice competitions and won the

sirst prize in the Primo Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino in 2015 in Italy.