Sydney – Australia
Maija Kovalevska was born in Riga and is a graduate of the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. From 2003, she resided in Italy under the tutelage of Mirella Freni.
In 2003 she made her Latvian National Opera debut as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and the following year was the winner of the 10th Riccardo Zandonai International Opera competition in Italy.
She rose to international prominence in 2006 after winning Plácido Domingo’s Operalia competition in Valencia.
She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2006 starring first as Mimi in Franco Zeffirelli’s production of La bohème and later as Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, going on to sing more than fifty roles for the company and appearing in the gala concert for the Met’s 125th anniversary.
She made her Vienna State Opera debut in 2011 as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, later singing Mimi in La bohème, Micaela in Carmen, The Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, Violetta in La traviata and Amelia in Simon Boccanegra.
She appeared as Micaela in The Royal Opera’s film production of Bizet’s Carmen, later returning to Covent Garden in her signature role of Mimi.
She has appeared as Liù in Turandot at La Scala Milan as well in the title role of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta at the Semperoper, Dresden and
Her performance as Teresa in Benvenuto Cellini was filmed at the Salzburg Festival and received a international commercial release.
Most recently, she has sung Mimi in La bohème in multiple seasons for Opera Australia as well as Gutrune in Götterdämmerung, she has returned to the Semperoper Dresden for Maddalena in Andrea Chénier, hasappeared as Alice Ford in Falstaff at the Staatsoper Hamburg and also at Grand Théâtre de Genève and has sung the title role of Tosca for West Australian Opera and at the Sigulda Festival in Latvia.
Kovalevska’s concert engagements include the Verdi Requiem with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Théâtre de Champs-Elysées, with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in the 2025 Hobart Festival Of Voices, also in the memorial concert for Mirella Freni in Modena in 2022 and with the Sydney Philharmonia Choir with which she has also appeared as soloist in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. Other engagements by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra include Beethoven’s Symphony No.9.
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