Russian-American Mezzo-Soprano Mariya Kaganskaya recently created the role of Teacher in the Santa Fe Opera’s world premiere production of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, the recording of which earned the 2019 GRAMMY Award for Best Opera Recording. For Florida Grand Opera, she has performed Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Charlotte (cover)/Käthchen in Werther, Paula in Florencia en el Amazonas, Page in Salome, and Mrs. Rockefeller/Natalia in Frida. She recently performed Tisbe in La Cenerentola, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, and Third Wood Sprite in Rusalka at Arizona Opera.
In the 2019-2020 Season, Ms. Kaganskaya makes virtual debuts with Baltimore Concert Opera, Bronx Opera, and PROJECT [BLANK], and is the the first US-based artist available for virtual gig booking on Lockdown Presents. Pre-lockdown performances included Malka in the premiere of Elijah's Violin.
Upcoming/postponed appearances include Ludmila in The Bartered Bride and a debut as the Mezzo soloist in Verdi’s Requiem, as well as a debut with Opera Ithaca.
Other recent roles include Olga in Eugene Onegin, Hostess in Boris Godunov, Marta in Iolanta, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Ottavia in L’incoronazione di Poppea, the title role of Serse, La Nourrice in Milhaud's Médée, Mexican Woman in A Streetcar Named Desire, Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti, Julia Bertram in Mansfield Park, and Malka in the premiere of Elijah’s Violin. Recent 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 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.
Her recent awards include First Place in the Lois Alba Aria Competition, the St. Petersburg Opera Guild Competition, the Gershwin International Music Competition, the Pacific Musical Society Competition, and the Eastern Region of the NATS Artist Awards; Second Place in the Henry and Maria Holt Memorial Competition; Third Place in the Edward M. Murray International Competition of Voice, the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition, and the East Bay Opera League 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, and the recipient of Encouragement Awards from the James Toland Vocal Arts Competition and the Western Region of the Metropolitan Opera National Council.
Ms. Kaganskaya is represented by Piper Artists Management.
Full opera roles
Argento: Postcard from Morocco
Foreign Singer/ Lady with a Hat Box
Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
Teacher
Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti
Dinah
Bizet: Carmen
Carmen
Catán: Florencia en el Amazonas
Paula
Cavalli: L’Egisto
Volupia
Dove: Mansfield Park
Julia Bertram
Dvořák: Rusalka
Third Wood Sprite
Gorb: Anya17
Elena
Handel: Giulio Cesare
Cornelia
Handel: Serse
Serse
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
Sandman
Mascagni: L'amico Fritz
Beppe
Massenet: Werther
Charlotte
Käthchen
McCune: We Wear the Sea Like a Coat
Rowan
Milhaud: Médée
La Nourrice
Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea
Ottavia
Mozart: Così fan tutte
Dorabella
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
Third Lady
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Cherubino
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Hostess
Portman: The Little Prince
The Fox
Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites
Sister St. Charles
Sister Martha
Previn: A Streetcar Named Desire
Eunice
Mexican Woman
Puccini: La fanciulla del West
Wowkle
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Suzuki
Puccini: Suor Angelica
La Suora Zelatrice
Purcell: The Fairy Queen
Chinese Man/Countertenor 2/Mopsa/Mystery/Summer
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel
Amelfa
Rodriguez: Frida
Schoolgirl/Revolutionary/Wedding Guest/Mrs. Rockefeller/Natalia
Rossini: La Cenerentola
Tisbe
Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila
Dalila
Smetana: The Bartered Bride
Ludmila
Strauss, R.: Salome
Herodias
Page
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Filippyevna
Larina
Olga
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta
Marta
Tchaikovsky: Pikovaya Dama
Milovzor
Polina
Warshauer: Elijah’s Violin
Malka
Partial opera roles
Beethoven: Fidelio
Leonore
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Romeo
Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict
Ursule
Bernstein: Candide
Old Lady
Britten: Peter Grimes
Auntie
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Lucretia
Delibes: Lakmé
Mallika
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Alisa
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Orfeo
Handel: Giulio Cesare
Cesare
Harrison: Rapunzel
Witch
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
Hansel
Mother
Massenet: Cendrillon
Cendrillon
Mechem: Tartuffe
Mme Pernelle
Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea
Nerone
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Zerlina
Mozart: Idomeneo
Idamante
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Marcellina
Offenbach: Les contes d’Hoffmann
Nicklausse
Puccini: La bohème
Musetta
Rodriguez: Frida
Frida
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Rosina
Rossini: L’italiana in Algeri
Isabella
Schubert: Fierrabras
Maragond
Strauss, J.: Die Fledermaus
Orlofsky
Strauss, R.: Der Rosenkavalier
Octavian
Susa: Transformations
Part 3
Verdi: Falstaff
Quickly
Verdi: Luisa Miller
Federica
Verdi: Rigoletto
Maddalena
Concert soli
Beethoven: 9th Symphony
Brahms: Liebesliedervalzer
Duruflé: Requiem
Fauré: Requiem
Handel: Messiah
Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Mozart: Coronation Mass
Mozart/Spears: Requiem
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
Schubert: Mass in G
Verdi: Requiem
Vivaldi: Gloria