Maria attended a pre-college voice course at the Mozarteum University Salzburg taught by Barbara Bonney before she began studying at Vienna\u2019s University of Music and Performing Arts, where she graduated from KS Edith Lienbacher\u2019s class receiving a Bachelor\u2019s Degree. Maria Ladurner also received a Master\u2019s Degree in Baroque singing at the University Mozarteum Salzburg where she studied with Ulrike Hofbauer and Andreas Scholl
\nIn the 2021\/2022 season, Maria Ladurner will be performing as Idaspe in Vivaldi’s Il Bajazet at the Staatstheater N\u00fcrnberg under the baton of Wolfgang Katschner. Maria has also upcoming concerts in collaboration with artists such as Michi Gaigg, Gunar Letzbor, Wolfgang Katschner and Jordi Savall at Konzerthaus Wien, Brucknerhaus Linz and Styriarte Graz. Two upcoming opera productions will lead her to Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci and Markgr\u00e4fliches Opernhaus Bayreuth (with Dorothee Oberlinger) and Donaufestwochen im Strudengau. With her Ensemble Moza\u00efque she is invited to Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci and Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik. <\/p>\n
Maria is particularly active in the field of Early Music. She has given concerts with renowned ensembles such as Lautten compagney Berlin, Ars Antiqua Austria, Ensemble 1700, Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Orfeo Barockorchester and Salzburger Hofmusik. In 2019 she sang in Giovanni Bononcini’s Polifemo in the role of Venere under the baton of Dorothee Oberlinger during which production she also gained her first experiences in historical acting under the direction of Margit Legler. The recording of this production recently won the Opus Klassik 2021 award. In her agenda also concerts at Philharmonie K\u00f6ln, at the Resonanzen (Konzerthaus Vienna) or the Internationale Orgelwoche N\u00fcrnberg ION can be found.<\/p>\n
The versatile young soprano gave her debut performance at the age of 19 as Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Sociale in Trento and at Tiroler Festspiele Erl. Her roles as Papagena (Die Zauberfl\u00f6te), Vespetta (Pimpinone), Venere (Polifemo), Hodel (Fiddler on the Roof) and Pastore (Tosca) took her to Staatstheater N\u00fcrnberg, Oper Bonn, Theater Aachen, Tiroler Festspiele Erl, Seefestspiele M\u00f6rbisch and Neue Oper Wien.<\/p>\n
At the J. I. F. Biber Competition 2019 she was awarded the J. I. F. Biber-Prize and the special prize of Fiori musicali and Note1 GmbH. With the Ensemble Moza\u00efque she was awarded the First Prize and the Audience Prize at the H\u00e4ndel Competition G\u00f6ttingen in 2021 and the First Prize and Audience Prize of the Competition Musikakademie Rheinsberg. Following this, Ensemble Moza\u00efque was awarded the title of Rheinsberger Hofkapelle 2020\/21.
\nMarias first solo-CD, \u201cArias for the Emperor\u201d, was released in May 2021 under the label PanClassics. In January 2022 the CD \u201cStorie di Napoli\u201d with la festa musicale and Barbara Heindlmaier was released under the label Audite. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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