Maria Slavkova
Soloist, Soprano
She was born in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria in 1956. She studied at the Sofia National Opera. She joined the Mainz Municipal Theater as staff member in 1984, while in 1990 she joined the Manheim National Theater, where she sang lead roles such as: Gioconda [La Gioconda], Tosca [Tosca], Leonore [Fidelio], Senta [The flying Dutchman/Der fliegende Holländer], Aida [Aida], Cio-Cio San [Madama Butterfly], Giorgetta [The Cloak/Il tabarro], Odabella [Attila] and Margherita [Mefistofele]. As an invited opera singer, she interpreted an array of roles, including: Mařenka [The Bartered Bride/Prodaná nevěsta], in Munich; Santuzza [Rustic Chivalry/Cavalleria rusticana], in Berlin and Tokyo; Leonore [Fidelio], at the Gelsenkirchen Theater, Oper Leipzig and Theatre Aachen; Elisabeth, Venus [Tannhäuser], in Limoges, Toulon and Braunschweig; Cio-Cio San [Madama Butterfly], in Cordoba; Sieglinde [Die Walküre], at the Hamburg State Opera; Abigaille [Nabucco], in Vienna; Aida [Aida], at the Hannover State Theater; Tannhäuser [Tannhäuser], etc. She collaborated with the GNO in the production of the opera Madama Butterfly as Cio-Cio San (1993). She died in Manheim in 2002.