Les contes d’Hoffmann: Maryna Zubko performs all four female roles and masters the enormous vocal and acting challenge with an agile soprano and effortlessly controlled top notes.
Maryna Zubko
SOPRANO
In a survey of critics conducted by the international trade journal OPERNWELT (Yearbook 2024), Maryna Zubko was the only singer to be chosen by two critics as an upcoming artist in the evaluation period from July 2023 to July 2024: by Werner Grimmel (Schwäbische Zeitung, FAZ) – “Maryna Zubko as Anna Bolena in Ulm”, and by Stephan Mösch (Opernwelt) – “Maryna Zubko in various roles in Ulm”.
The young German-Ukrainian soprano Maryna Zubko graduated her master’s degree in opera at the National Academy of Music of Ukraine Pyotr Tchaikovsky with honours as well as her concert exam at the University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main. As a stipendiary of the International Vocal Studio Berlin under the patronage of Eva Wagner-Pasquier, she was mentored by Césare Colona. Since 2018, she has been perfecting her vocal art with Elena Pankratova. Master classes with Ivan Konsulov, Helmut Deutsch, Claudia Eder and Mariella Devia completed her education.
In recent years, Maryna Zubko has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Song Prize at the 9th International Lions Singing Competition of the Immling Festival and the 1st Prize and Audience Award at the 32nd International Meistersinger Competition in Neustadt an der Weinstraße. She has also received scholarships from the Richard Wagner Society (Ulm), the Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Stuttgart), the Frankfurt Bach Concerts, the Peter Fuld Foundation and the Da Ponte Foundation, among others.
Since the 2018/2019 season, the singer has been engaged in the ensemble at the Theatre Ulm. She has also appeared as a soloist in a number of opera productions and projects at the Music Theatre in the Ruhr Gelsenkirchen, the Staatstheater Darmstadt, the Theatre Heidelberg, the Theatre Coburg, the Theatre Pforzheim, the Theatre Regensburg and the Immling Festival. In concert, Maryna Zubko has performed with the German State Philharmonic Orchestra of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Johann Strauss Orchestra Frankfurt, among others.
In the 2021/2022 season, the versatile soprano was awarded the Ulm Theatre Prize for her roles of ZERBINETTA, GILDA and ROSINA and was honored by the SÜDWEST PRESSE as »The Singer of the Season«. In the 2022/2023 season she was hailed by press and audience for the roles of OLYMPIA, ANTONIA and GIULIETTA in »LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN«. From January 2024 to February 2025, Maryna Zubko made her debut with extraordinary success in the TITLE ROLES in Donizetti’s »ANNA BOLENA« and »MARIA STUARDA« as well as AGATHE in »FREISCHÜTZ« and DESDEMONA in Verdi’s »OTELLO« (see press reviews).
Her interests also include the lied and oratorio repertoire.
The soprano works with conductors such as Felix Bender, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Timo Handschuh, Michael Weiger, Nikolaus Henseler, Nikolai Petersen, Levente Török, Walter Althammer, Cornelia von Kerssenbrock, Evan Alexis Christ, Otto Honeck and Volker Christ as well as with directors such as Anthony Pilavachi, Hinrich Horstkotte, Wolf Widder, Dietrich Hilsdorf, Ansgar Haag, Kay Metzger, Benjamin Künzel, Annette Wolf and Ludwig Baumann.