A voice of many facets
Maria Franz was born in Kyiv into a family of musicians and grew up in Germany and Israel.
Before studying singing, she completed a double B.A. in History and Musicology and an M.A. in International Peace Research and Mediation at the Universities of Cologne and Tel Aviv.
As a singer-songwriter in the folk-pop genre, she has been releasing her own music since 2023.
In the classical song genre, she is particularly fond of Franz Schubert and the chamber compositions of the bel canto era. Her program “Heimat or not”, which spans languages and epochs, hits the nerve of the times in a world that is becoming ever smaller and yet ever lonelier.
Her performance at the Koblenz Mendelssohn Days 2019, where she presented songs by famous female composers, in particular Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn, deserves a special mention.
Theater, and especially its interdisciplinary branch, has accompanied Maria Franz since her early youth. At the age of 14, she made her debut at the Bonn Opera in B. Britten's children's opera “The little Sweep” as Sophie. As a young student, she mastered the role of Cleopatra in Handel's “Giulio Cesare in Egitto” with bravura and as a trained soprano she met Britten again in 2021/22 at the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg in the role of Flora in “The Turn of the Screw”. In 2022, she shone in a leading role in the musical play “Psychosa” as the allegorical female character on the funeral pyre at the Teatron Theater Arnsberg and at the Czech Dvořák Festival Dvořákova in Olomouc, she captivated the audience as Crown Chakra in the finale of the choreographed dance opera “Durst”. She has also interpreted several Mozart roles on stage in numerous independent productions, starting with the Queen of the Night and more recently Pamina from “The Magic Flute” and Susanna in “Le Nozze di Figaro”.
Bel canto is also very close to the singer's heart in the operatic field. Her vocal technique, which she learned from Prof. Tamar Rachum, Judith Lindenbaum and Wolfgang Klose and is now perfecting with Zlata Kherschberg-Reith, is based on bel canto and her dream roles include Amina in Bellini's “La Sonnambula”, Norina in Donizetti's “Don Pasquale” and Gilda in Verdi's “Rigoletto”.
She received important musical impulses in particular from Inessa Galante, Prof. Thomas Heyer and Prof. Klesie-Kelly-Moog.
The concert with its special challenge of transporting herself into other roles without a costume, just through the music, is particularly appealing to the young singer.
Franz launched her concert career while still a student with two concerts in one day in 2016 - in the morning she sang the solo soprano in Fauré's “Requiem”, and in the evening a leading role in the world premiere of Peter Gary's modern “20th Century Passion” at the Jerusalem Theatre. This was followed by countless masses, cantatas and recitals with works by Bach, Monteverdi, Haydn, Mozart, Britten and Handel. The solo soprano I in Handels' “Dixit Dominus” is one of Franz's favorite roles.
After realizing several oratorio dreams as a soloist in 2023 with Pergolesi's “Stabat Mater”, Mozart's “Requiem” and especially Mozart's “Great Mass in C minor”, she made her debut at the Cologne Philharmonic in 2024 in the role of Sorge in Robert Schumann's “Faust Scenes” and sang her first “Christmas Oratorio” by J.S. Bach.
Other dream soprano roles include Poulenc's “Gloria” and Rossini's “Petite Messe Solennelle”.
The young singer also enjoys ensemble work. As a student, she sang in the chamber choir and chamber octet of the Buchmann Mehta School of Music Tel Aviv and is now a welcome guest at the Zurich Singakademie.
Her solo and ensemble work has taken her to many renowned venues such as the Kölner Philharmonie, Philharmonie Berlin, Liederhalle Stuttgart, Konzerthaus Freiburg, Tanzquartier Wien, Theater Bonn, Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, Jerusalem Theatre, Haifa Concert Hall, Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz and many more.
2025 includes the release of her second EP, “Scripts”, in collaboration with the London label Metric Acorn and Electronic Memory Studio Frankfurt.
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