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
Ukrainian-German soprano Maryna Zubko, named Young Singer of the Year 2024 in a critics’ poll conducted by the trade journal Opernwelt, winner and finalist in many international singing competitions, has been celebrated by the regional and international press and acclaimed by audiences for her roles as Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Agathe and Desdemona. In the 2025/2026 season, Maryna Zubko will be heard in the roles of Elettra in Idomeneo, Mimi in La Bohème and Eva in Die Meistersinger at the Theatre Ulm. Solo roles in numerous opera and operetta productions have also taken Maryna Zubko to the stages of the Staatstheater Darmstadt, the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, the Theater Heidelberg and the Immling Opera Festival, among others. Maryna Zubko has performed in concert with the German State Philharmonic Orchestra Rhineland-Palatinate, the Prague Royal Philharmonic, the Thuringia Philharmonic Orchestra Gotha-Eisenach and the Frankfurt Symphony Orchestra. Her artistic activities have taken her to Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Austria and Switzerland, among other countries. Maryna Zubko’s interests range from Baroque to modern works, including the song and oratorio repertoire.
The world premiere of Charles Tournemire’s opera Le petit pauvre d’Assise, blessed by Pope Francis and featuring Maryna Zubko as Claire d’Assise, was voted Premiere of the Year 2025 by the trade magazine Opernwelt and broadcast on ARD Opera. 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 newspaper for her roles as Zerbinetta, Gilda and Rosina. She is also a prize winner of the Meistersinger Competition in Rhineland-Palatinate, the International Lions Singing Competition, the Oksana Petrusenko Singing Competition, and a finalist of the ARD Music Competition and the International Competition Franz Schubert and Modern Music in Graz. She has received scholarships from the Richard Wagner Society (Kyiv and Ulm), the Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Stuttgart) and the Frankfurt Bach Concerts.
Maryna Zubko completed her postgraduate studies in Advanced Studies: Solo Voice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with Elena Pankratova. She completed her Master’s degree in Opera with distinction and her Concert Exam at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Ursula Targler-Sell. She received her Master of Music art with honour from the National Music Academy of Ukraine under Iryna Semenenko and her Bachelor’s degree in German Studies from the Kyiv National Linguistic University. As a scholarship holder of the International Vocal Studio Berlin under the patronage of Eva Wagner-Pasquier, she was mentored by Césare Colona. Saverio Suarez, Ivan Konsulov, Helmut Deutsch, Claudia Eder and Mariella Devia provided her with important input.
The soprano works with conductors such as Timo Handschuh, Michael Weiger, Ulrike Blessing, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Felix Bender, Nikolaus Henseler, Nikolai Petersen, Levente Török, Walter Althammer, Cornelia von Kerssenbrock, Evan Alexis Christ, Otto Honeck and Volker Christ, as well as directors such as Anthony Pilavachi, Kay Metzger, Hinrich Horstkotte, Wolf Widder, Ansgar Haag, Dietrich Hilsdorf, Ludwig Baumann, Rahel Thiel, Annette Wolf and Benjamin Künzel.