ORPHEUS Mai/Juni 2025
Theatre Ulm can count itself extremely lucky to have its ensemble pillars Maryna Zubko as Maria Stuarda and Maria Rosendorfsky as the power-conscious, death-defying English Queen Elisabetta.
Which side should the audience take artistically when blood ties, love interests and politics play no role and only the performance of the singing counts? It is Zubko’s side…Rosendorfsky sings purely, beautifully phrased, expressively, but Maryna Zubko is more sovereign in her dynamic, colour-shading, internal tempi using creative power. What Rosendorfsky achieves through discipline, Zubko trumps with perfect support and feather-light notes plucked from the sky.
DER NEUE MERKER 04/2025
With Maryna Zubko, the Ulm Theatre also had a guarantee of success; she was the ideal cast for Maria, as she had been for Anna Bolena. Not only does she have the perfect voice, her colouratura soprano is ravishing in all registers, virtuosic and yet powerful and flourishing, she is also an impressive actress, so absorbed in her role that one suffers with her at every stage and is captivated by her.
Two days earlier, she had already sung Desdemona in ‘Otello’, so it was all the more admirable how she mastered these two great roles. Bravo!
SÜDWEST PRESSE: Night review
Rather solid bel canto opera at the Theatre Ulm with an outstanding Maryna Zubko celebrated by the audience.
SÜDWEST PRESSE
Maryna Zubko sings the title role to great acclaim.
Plenty of space for the music. Maryna Zubko makes full use of it: emotional, demonstratively overwhelming top notes. But also lyrical feelings in the cantilenas. Prima donna-like strength. A performance acclaimed by the audience.
AUGSBURGER ALLGEMEINE
Maryna Zubko enchanted the premiere audience in the title role of “Maria Stuarda”.
Around 15 minutes of applause: “Maria Stuarda”, the second opera in the Tudor trilogy at Theatre Ulm, was similarly well received by the audience as part 1, “Anna Bolena” – and Maryna Zubko’s outstanding performance, again in the title role, received the strongest applause.
