Biography
German mezzo-soprano Maria Hegele is a former member of the Opera Studio at the Volksoper Wien and winner of the 2022 August Everding Competition and the 2022 Hidalgo Liedpreis. Other notable awards include Second Prize and the ECMS Prize at the 2025 International Haydn Competition, as well as finalist and prizewinner status at the 2025 Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition in Dublin.In 2026/27 Maria returns to the Goethe-Theater Bad Lauchstädt as Annio in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito, performs Schubert’s Mass in E-flat major with the Bochumer Symphoniker and C. P. E. Bach’s Magnificat with the Zürcher Singakademie, both conducted by Florian Helgath, Handel’s Israel in Egypt with the C.P.E. Bach Chor Hamburg and Hansjörg Albrecht and Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium with Recreation – Das Orchester and Florian Hofstetter, among others.
Recent highlights include her debuts at the Staatstheater Darmstadt as Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel and as Annio in La clemenza di Tito with the Staatskapelle Halle at the Goethe-Theater Bad Lauchstädt. At the Volksoper Wien she sang Hänsel, Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte, Tisbe in La Cenerentola, Flora in La traviata and Mercédès in Carmen. On the concert stage, she has performed Haydn’s Stabat Mater with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under Willem de Vriend, Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the Zürcher Singakademie, Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Noord Nederlands Orkest, Haydn’s Theresienmesse at the Styriarte Festival, and Salieri’s La grotta di Trofonio at the Tage Alter Musik in Herne with the Hofkapelle München.
Over the last few seasons, Maria made a series of debuts at leading festivals and opera houses, among them the Bregenzer Festspiele in the world premiere of Éna Brennan’s Hold Your Breath, the Gluck Festspiele in Nuremberg as Annio in La clemenza di Tito, and the Staatsoper Berlin as Frasquita in Carmen, under Bertrand de Billy, Giovanna in Rigoletto, a Slave in Salome under François-Xavier Roth, and the Second Handmaid of Dirce in Médée.
Maria’s extensive concert repertoire ranges from Vivaldi and Pergolesi to the oratorios and sacred works of Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Schumann. She has appeared at renowned venues such as Munich’s Gasteig and Herkulessaal and Müpa Budapest. A passionate recitalist, she regularly performs throughout Austria and Germany.
Her competition successes also encompass First Prize at the 2018 Claude Debussy Chamber Music Competition, Third Prize at the 2021 Lies Askonas Competition, Fourth Prize and the Best Sacred Aria Prize at the 2022 Mozart Singing Competition. She was a finalist in the in the 2022 NEUE STIMMEN competition and the 2023 Cesti Competition in Innsbruck.
Maria is a graduate of the Royal College of Music’s International Opera Studio, where she studied with Dinah Harris and Veronica Vesey-Campbell. Previously, she studied with Barbara Bonney at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where she earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees. She has been selected as a Samling Young Artist, Britten-Pears Young Artist, Heidelberger Frühling Scholar, and Imogen Cooper Music Trust Scholar.
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