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Mariya Kaganskaya

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Currently Performing
Dialogues des Carmélites
Performer
San Francisco Opera
October 15, 2022 to 4 more
October 15, 2022
October 18, 2022
October 21, 2022
October 26, 2022
October 30, 2022
Career Highlights/Education
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San Francisco Opera
principal cover, The Magic Flute, Dialogues des Carmélites, 2022-2024
Opera Omaha
Larina, Eugene Onegin, 2022

Biography

(She/Her) Hailed for her "rich mezzo" (OPERA Magazine), Mezzo-Soprano Mariya Kaganskaya returned to San Francisco Opera in the 2023-2024 Season to cover the role of Third Lady in The Magic Flute. Additional appearances included reprising the role of Suzuki in Madama Butterfly with West Bay Opera and making her Opera Columbus debut as Larina in Eugene Onegin. She begins the 2024-2025 Season with a debut at Opera San José as Third Lady in The Magic Flute.
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Projects and Media

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Mariya Kaganskaya - Paula's aria (Florencia en el Amazonas)
December 2023
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Mariya Kaganskaya - There is a garden (Trouble in Tahiti)
December 2023
Video
Je vais mourir... Adieu, fière cité (Les Troyens)
Mariya Kaganskaya & Catherine Miller
Video
Da, chas nastal
The Maid of Orleans
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Schedule

Recent Highlights

Eugene Onegin
Larina
Opera Columbus
March 01, 2024
March 01, 2024
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Eugene Onegin
March 01, 2024
Event Type Opera
Language Performed Russian
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Mariya Kaganskaya

Mariya Kaganskaya

Larina

Mar 01, 2024
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Mar, 24
Dane Suarez

Dane Suarez

Vladimir Lensky

Mar 01, 2024
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1
Mar, 24
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Hilary Ginther

Hilary Ginther

Olga

Mar 01, 2024
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Mar, 24
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Mar, 24
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The Magic Flute
Performer
San Francisco Opera
May 30, 2024 to 8 more
May 30, 2024
June 02, 2024
June 04, 2024
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June 14, 2024 June 20, 2024
June 22, 2024
June 26, 2024
June 30, 2024
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The Magic Flute
May 30, 2024
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Event Type Opera
Language Performed German
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Mariya Kaganskaya

Mariya Kaganskaya

Performer

May 30, 2024
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The Magic Flute
Performer
Opera San José
September 14, 2024 to 5 more
September 14, 2024
September 15, 2024
September 20, 2024
September 22, 2024
September 27, 2024 September 29, 2024
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The Magic Flute
September 14, 2024
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Event Type Opera
Language Performed German
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Mariya Kaganskaya

Mariya Kaganskaya

Performer

Sep 14, 2024
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Biography

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Mariya Kaganskaya

Hailed for her "rich mezzo" (OPERA Magazine), Mezzo-Soprano Mariya Kaganskaya returned to San Francisco Opera in the 2023-2024 Season to cover the role of Third Lady in The Magic Flute. Additional appearances included reprising the role of Suzuki in Madama Butterfly with West Bay Opera  and making her Opera Columbus debut as Larina in Eugene Onegin. She begins the 2024-2025 Season with a debut at Opera San José as Third Lady in The Magic Flute.

2022-2023 Season highlights include joining the San Francisco Opera roster to cover roles in Dialogues des Carmélites and releasing her debut solo album, To My Little Dreamer, on the Lexicon Classics label. In the 2021-2022 Season, Ms. Kaganskaya performed the roles of Beppe in L'amico Fritz with Teatro Grattacielo, Rowan in the world premiere of We Wear the Sea Like a Coat and Sandman in an acclaimed film version of Hansel and Gretel with Opera Ithaca, Larina in Eugene Onegin with Opera Omaha, and Polina/Milovzor in Pique Dame with West Bay Opera.

Roles in previous seasons include Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Herodias (cover)/Page in Salome, Paula in Florencia en el Amazonas, and Charlotte (cover) in Werther at Florida Grand Opera, Tisbe in La Cenerentola, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, and Third Wood Sprite in Rusalka at Arizona Opera, and Teacher in The Santa Fe Opera’s world premiere production of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, the recording of which earned the GRAMMY Award for Best Opera Recording. 

Additional roles include Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Ottavia (L’incoronazione di Poppea), the title role of Serse, Olga (Eugene Onegin), Hostess (Boris Godunov), Marta (Iolanta), La Nourrice (Milhaud's Médée), Dinah (Trouble in Tahiti), and Julia Bertram (Mansfield Park). Oratorio credits include performances as the Mezzo soloist in Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, and Handel’s Messiah. 

Ms. Kaganskaya’s training includes residencies with The Santa Fe Opera, Arizona Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, and the iSing! International Young Artist Festival in China. She is an alumna of the OperaWorks Advanced Artist Program and the Russian Opera Workshop at the Academy of Vocal Arts, and earned her MM and PGD at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, under the tutelage of Catherine Cook. Recent awards include First Place in the Classical Singer Competition (Emerging Professional Division), the Lois Alba Aria Competition, the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, the St. Petersburg Opera Guild Competition, the Gershwin International Competition, and both the Eastern and Southeastern Region of the NATS Artist Awards, Second Place in the Holt Competition, and Third Place in the Edward M. Murray International Competition of Voice and the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition. She is a Winner of the most recent Bel Canto Vocal Scholarship Foundation Competition and the inaugural Butler Opera International Competition, as well as the Pasadena Opera Guild Competition and the San Francisco District of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. 

Ms. Kaganskaya is represented by Piper Artists Management. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, toddler son, and rescue dog. For more information, please visit mariyakaganskaya.com.

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