Maria Petrovna Maksakova

Background

Maria Maksakova was born on March 26, 1902 in Astrahan', Russian Federation.

Career

In 1919-1923 she worked in an opera troupe in Astrakhan. In the years 1923-1925 and 1927-1953 the soloist of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. The main parts include: Carmen in the eponymous opera by Georges Bizet, Lyubasha (“The Tsar’s Bride” by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov), Tosca in the eponymous opera by Giacomo Puccini, Amneris (“Aida” by Giuseppe Verdi), Olga (“Eugene Onegin” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky), Konchakovna (“Prince Igor” by Alexander Porfirievich Borodin), Martha, Marina Mnishek (“Khovanshchina”, “Boris Godunov” by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky), Klariche (“Love for Three Oranges” by Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev) and others.

Achievements

• The USSR State Prize winner (1946, 1949, 1951), People's Artist of the USSR (1971), winner of the R. Schumann Prize (German Democratic Republic, 1972).

Connections

She was a pupil and the wife of Maximilian Karlovich Maksakov.

husband:

Maximilian Karlovich Maksakov