Most recently Dutch mezzo soprano Maria Warenberg (1995) made a successful debut as Annio in Mozart´s La clemenza di Tito. This production premiered at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen and will also be presented in Vienna during the Wiener Festwochen later this season. 

In 2021 she debuted as Stéphano (C. Gounod/ Roméo et Juliette) at Opera Zuid. As a former member of the Dutch National Opera Academy in Amsterdam she made her debut in various opera productions, some of her roles include: The Foreign Singer from Postcard from Morocco/Argento( 2022), Suzanne from Un mari à la porte/Offenbach (2022) and Costanza from L’isola disabitata/Haydn, (2023) with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century under the baton of Kenneth Montgomery.

One of the highlights last season were performances at The Concertgebouw and Tivoli Vredenburg with the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Enrico Delamboye. The young mezzo soprano performed aria’s and duets by Rossini, Gluck and Offenbach. This season the young mezzo soprano will return to the Concertgebouw in The Makropulos affair by Janacek with the Radio Philharmonic orchestra conducted by Karina Canellakis.

Besides opera repertoire, Maria has a big passion for Lied repertoire. She performed in different settings in halls such as The Concertgebouw, Flagey, Brussels, Muziekgebouw aan t’ IJ, Tivoli Vredenburg, and De Doelen, Rotterdam. At the end of this season she will perform Les nuits d’été by Berlioz with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie during the Voices Festival.

Maria finished her studies with distinction at the Conservatoire of Amsterdam under the guidance of renowned professor Sasja Hunnego.

Maria Warenberg is a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition (2023), a multiple prize winner at the Classic Young Masters competition and she was awarded the Miluska Duffková Scholarship.