Maria Warenberg is born in the Netherlands in a family of musicians. She had her first piano lessons at the age of seven and also enjoyed singing from a young age. She had her first singing lesson from Marjan Kuiper. Six months later she entered the Princess Christina competition and won the encouragement award.
In the same year Maria was admitted to the School for Young Talent at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague where she studied with Rita Dams and Marjan Kuiper. Since September 2015 Maria studies at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Sasja Hunnego. Furthermore she had masterclasses from Margreet Honig, Marlena Malas, Nelly Miricioiu, Ann Murray, Salvatore Fisichella, Brian Zeger, Jack LiVigni, Sergei Leiferkus and Ira Siff.
Together with pianist Gabrielė Žemaitytė Maria enjoys singing lied repertoire. They have performed as a duo in different venues such as The Concertgebouw, De Doelen and several other theaters in the Netherlands.During the festive ‘Meesterproef competition’ on 21 September 2014 in the Doelen in Rotterdam, Maria Warenberg was chosen from a broadly based committee as Classic Young Master of 2014.
In 2017 Maria got lessons and masterclasses in New York with renowned singing teachers from The Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music. In addition, Maria also participated in an opera summer-school during the ‘Grachtenfestival’ in Amsterdam.
The young mezzo-soprano made her debut as Cherubino in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro during the Mediterranean Opera Festival in Sicily.and at the Dutch National Opera as part of the vocal ensemble of Willem Jeth´s new opera Ritratto. On TV she was featured in the series ´Young Heroes´ in the music programme ´Podium Witteman´
This season she will make her debut in the role of Stéphano in Gounods Roméo et Juliette at Opera Zuid and be a member of the Dutch National Opera Academy where she will perform in various productions.
2021-2022
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