Maria Hegele

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Biography
German mezzo-soprano Maria Hegele is a graduate of the Royal College of Music’s International Opera Studio, where she studied under the tutelage of Dinah Harris and Veronica Vesey-Campbell. Prior to this, she studied with Barbara Bonney at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, graduating with a Bachelors and a Masters degree. She is a Samling Young Artist, a Britten-Pears Young Artist, Heidelberger Frühling Scholar and Imogen Cooper Music Trust Scholar.

The season 2024/25 includes Maria Hegele’s return to Volksoper Wien as Prinz Orlofsky/Die Fledermaus, 2. Dame/Die Zauberflöte, Sängerin/Nurejews Hund and Mercédès/Carmen as well as her role debut as Annio in Mozart’s La Clemenza die Tito with Staatskapelle Halle at the Goethe Theater Bad Lauchstädt. Furthermore, she will perform Haydn’s Theresienmesse at the Styriarte Festival, Mozart’s Mass in c-minor with Zürcher Singakademie, Bach’s Matthäus-Passion with the Noord Nederlands Orkest and give recitals in Germany and Austria.

Between 2022 and 2024 Maria Hegele was a member of the newly founded opera studio at Volksoper Wien, where she sang roles such as Hänsel, Sandmännchen/Hänsel und Gretel, Zweite Dame/Die Zauberflöte, Orlofsky/Die Fledermaus, Dorabella/Cosi fan tutte. Tisbe/La Cenerentola, Flora/La Traviata, Ede/Die Dreigroschenoper and several parts in Les mamelles de Tiresias.

At the same time she gave several house and role debuts: at the Bregenzer Festspiele as The Black Leader and Dollmaker in the world premiere of Éna Brennan’s Hold Your Breath, at the Gluck Festspiele in Nürnberg as Annio in Gluck’s La Clemenza di Tito and at the Staatsoper Berlin as Frasquita/Carmen, conducted by Bertrand de Billy, Giovanna/Rigoletto, Slave/Salome, conducted by François-Xavier Roth, and 2nd Handmaid of Dirce/Médée.More
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