Maida Hundeling

German soprano Maida Hundeling was born in Bizerte, Tunisia. She received early voice training from baritone Werner Schürmann. In 1997 she attended master classes conducted by the chamber singer Walter Berry, and in the following year she received a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Bursary Fund in Bayreuth. Since 1999 she has furthered her schooling as a singer and her interpreting skills in Vienna, with the Kammersängerin Olivera Miljakovic. From 2001 – 2003 she was soloist of the Thüringen Landestheater in Eisenach. Since 2003 a freelance artist, she has guest appeared at, among other venues, the Prague State Opera, where she performed Marta (Tiefland), Amelia (Un ballo in maschera), Tosca, Aida, and Turandot. In May 2008 she earned international acclaim for her creation at the Prague State Opera of Senta (Der fliegende Holländer), a success she reconfirmed in September of the same year at the Staatstheater Braunschweig. The critics have highly commended her creations at the National Theatre in Prague, where she has been Adriana Lecouvreur, Katerina (The Greek Passion), Donna Anna, and Giulietta (Les Contes d’Hoffmann). In the autumn of 2005 she took part in the company’s Japanese tour performing the title role in Aida, and in 2007 guest appeared in the same role at Saarbrücken (in a production staged by Peter Konwitschny). Since December 2008 she has been cast as Aida at the Leipzig Opera. In April 2007 Maida Hundeling made her debut at the National Theatre in Bratislava, as Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos). At the Wuppertal Opera she was Lisa (The Queen of Spades), and in the spring of 2008 she appeared there as Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes). In December 2008 she made her first appearance as Marie in Wozzeck at Regensburg, and in 2009 she made her debut as Chysothemis at the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau. In May 2009 she started to alternate at the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater as Elisabeth (Tannhäuser). In October 2009 she triumphed as Aida in a guest appearance at Salzburg’s Grosses Festspielhaus, and took over as Ellen Orford at the Staatstheater Hannover. In the course of the current season, Maida Hundeling debuted in Italy, as Chrysothemis in a co-production of the opera houses of Bolzano, Modena, Piacenza and Ferrara, as well as creating Elisabeth in La Scala’s new production of Tannhäuser. Apart from her debut at the Prague State Opera, where she is anticipating to create Isolde (Tristan und Isolde), she will sing her first Tosca at Vienna’s Volksoper.

Maida Hundeling has guest appeared as an opera, oratorio and cantata singer in Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Japan, Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy, Serbia, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, and the United States.

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