Maria Motolygina

The soprano and multiple award winner Maria Motolygina is a graduate of the young artists’ program at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and, among other distinctions, the 2021 laureate of the prestigious Queen Sonja International Music Competition. In the 2022/23 season she was also the recipient of the Belcanto Scholarship of the Förderkreis der Deutschen Oper Berlin.

Most recently she has appeared as Amelia (Simon Boccanegra) in Rome, Desdemona (Otello) in Palermo, the title role of Iolanta in London, Warja in Mieczysław Weinberg’s The Idiot, Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, Azema in Rossini’s Semiramide, as well as in Pique Dame (Liza), Le nozze di Figaro (Countess Almaviva), Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira), Il trittico (Suor Angelica and Giorgetta), Hänsel und Gretel (Gertrud), Nabucco (Anna), Carmen (Micaëla), and Die Zauberflöte at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Maria Motolygina made her Vienna State Opera debut in 2023 in the new production of Dialogues des Carmélites.