Cynthia Makris

Cynthia Makris is a soprano opera singer whose professional career has spanned nearly thirty years.

She was born 1956 in Sterling, Colorado, USA, and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Music Performance from Adams State College.[1] Makris has sung major soprano roles at La Scala and the Royal Opera House, the Finnish National Opera and many other opera houses. She has performed in Europe, South America, and Asia. Her repertoire ranges from coloratura to dramatic roles including the title role in Salome by Richard Strauss.[1] For Opera Queensland she sang Abigaille in Verdi's Nabucco in 2007 and Turandot in 2008.

Makris won the Metropolitan Opera Regional award for young singers as well the San Francisco Opera Regional award two consecutive years during her graduate studies in vocal performance at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her first professional role was as Tosca with the Denver Lyric Opera Company. She received an award in 1982 from the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia for her performance of the three heroines in The Tales of Hoffmann.[2] She was Artist of the Year of the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 2006, an award for her contribution to the festival since 1993, when she sang Lady Macbeth in Ralf Långbacka's televised production of Verdi's opera.[3][4]

Makris is a vocal teacher and an NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) practitioner as well as a life coach and a Reiki Master. She is married to Finnish tenor, Raimo Sirkiä and has a son. She lives in Florida, US, and in Helsinki, Finland.

Repertoire

ComposerOperaRole
Italian composers
BelliniNormaNorma
DonizettiAnna BolenaAnna
Lucia di LammermoorLucia
GiordanoAndrea ChénierMaddalena
LeoncavalloLa bohèmeMimi
PucciniLa fanciulla del WestMinnie
Madama ButterflyCio-Cio-San
Manon LescautManon
ToscaTosca
TurandotTurandot
VerdiAidaAida
Un ballo in mascheraAmelia
FalstaffAlice
La forza del destinoLeonora
Luisa MillerLuisa
MacbethLady Macbeth
NabuccoAbigaille
OtelloDesdemona
La traviataVioletta
Il trovatoreLeonora
ZandonaiFrancesca da RiminiFrancesca
German composers
BeethovenFidelioLeonore
BergLuluLulu
WozzeckMarie
BrandMaschinist HopkinsNell
SpohrFaustKunigunde
Richard StraussArabellaArabella
Ariadne auf NaxosNajade
Die Frau ohne SchattenDie Kaiserin
Der FriedenstagMaria
ElektraElektra
SalomeSalome
WagnerDer fliegende HolländerSenta
Die Meistersinger von NürnbergEva
Das RheingoldFreia
TannhäuserElisabeth, Venus
WeberDer FreischützAgathe
WeillAufstieg und Fall der Stadt MahagonnyJenny
Austrian composers
KorngoldDie tote StadtMarie/Marietta
KrenekJonny spielt aufAnita
MozartDon GiovanniDonna Anna, Donna Elvira
Die Entführung aus dem SerailConstanze
Le nozze di FigaroLa Contessa
Die ZauberflötePamina
SchrekerIrreloheEva
Johann StraussDie FledermausRosalinde
Der ZigeunerbaronSaffi
French composers
OffenbachLes contes d'HoffmannAntonia, Olympia, Giulietta
American composers
MooreThe Ballad of Baby DoeElizabeth "Baby" Doe
Czech composers
SmetanaThe Bartered BrideMarie

References

  1. 1 2 International Who's Who in Classical Music 2003. Routledge. p. 496. ISBN 978-1-85743-174-2.
  2. ↑ "Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen für junge Künstlerinnen und Künstler" Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine. (in German)
  3. ↑ Cynthia Makris – Artist of the Year
  4. ↑ Macbeth (TV 1993) on IMDb


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