Maria Maksakova, Jr.

Maria Petrovna Maksakova, Junior is a Russian opera singer, a guest soloist with Bolshoi Theater , soloist with Moscows HelikonOpera and Mariinsky Opera Company . She is the daughter of actress Lyudmila Maksakova and granddaughter of Maria Petrovna Maksakova, Sr., a renowned Russian and Soviet opera singer. Maria Maksakova is the laureate of several prestigious events . Her extensive chamber repertoire includes works by Schumann, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Rakhmaninov, RimskyKorsakov.

Maksakova was born in Munich, a daughter of the Soviet actress Lyudmila Maksakova and the Pragueborn German businessman Peter Igenbergs, a son of the Latvian Baltic German emigres. Maria spent her childhood at the village of Snegiri, outside Moscow, where Bolshoi Theatre soloists and many famous musicians had their summer dachas. She began studying music from the age of three and aged six enrolled at the piano department of the Moscow Conservatorys Central Music School where her teacher was the famous opera singer Natalia Schpiller. As a student she went to Italy to study under Katya Ricciarelli and, on completing her studies there, made her debut at the Parma Opera House. Her other tutors were Mivako Matsumoto, Gianfranco Pastine and Zurab Sotkilava. With the latter Maria toured the Ukraine and Russia. In 1995 she graduated from the School with honours and at the age of fifteen decided to embark upon the career of a singer, joining the Russian Gnesin Academy of Music, the class of pro

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