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
The young German-Ukrainian soprano Maryna Zubko can be heard as a soloist in numerous opera and operetta productions at the Theatre Ulm, the Staatstheater Darmstadt and the Immling Opera Festival. In concert, Maryna Zubko has performed with the German State Philharmonic Orchestra of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Johann Strauss Orchestra Frankfurt, among others. Her interests range from baroque to modern works, including the lied and oratorio repertoire.
In the 2024/2025 season, Maryna Zubko brilliantly continued Donizetti’s Tudor cycle as Maria Stuarda and confidently debuted as Weber’s Agathe and Verdi’s Desdemona at the Theatre Ulm. In May, the singer was acclaimed by audiences and the press for the role of Claire in the world premiere of Charles Tournemire’s opera “Le petit pauvre d’Assise”, which still was blessed by Pope Francis (see press reviews). In 2025/2026, Maryna Zubko can be heard in the roles of Elettra in Idomeneo, Mimi in La Bohème and Eva in Die Meistersinger at the Theatre Ulm.
In the 2023/24 season, Maryna Zubko celebrated extraordinary success with Anna Bolena and was named “Upcoming Artist of the Year 2024″ by the Opernwelt magazine. In the 2021/2022 season, the versatile singer was awarded the “Ulm Theatre Prize” and was named “Singer of the Season” by the Südwest Presse for her roles of Zerbinetta, Gilda and Rosina. She was also a prize winner and finalist at the Meistersinger Competition in Rhineland-Palatinate, the ARD Music Competition and the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition, among others, and received scholarships from the Richard Wagner Society (Ulm), the Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Stuttgart) and the Frankfurt Bach Concerts, among others.
Maryna Zubko graduated her Master of Music art with honour at the National Academy of Music of Ukraine Pyotr Tchaikovsky with Iryna Semenenko, her Master in Opera with distinction and her concert exam at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Ursula Targler-Sell. As a stipendiary of the International Vocal Studio Berlin under the patronage of Eva Wagner-Pasquier, she was mentored by Césare Colona. She has been perfecting her vocal art with Elena Pankratova since 2018. Master classes with Ivan Konsulov, Helmut Deutsch, Claudia Eder and Mariella Devia completed her education.
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, Kobie van Rensburg, Dietrich Hilsdorf, Ansgar Haag, Kay Metzger, Benjamin Künzel, Annette Wolf and Ludwig Baumann.