Yamina Maamar

Yamina Maamar was born in Germany and studied singing with Prof. Carol Richardson at Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media. She started her career as mezzosoprano with roles like Cherubino, Dorabella and Orlofsky before she changed to dramatic soprano. In addition to her international artistic activities, she sang in important German speaking theaters such as Bavarian State Opera Munich, Lower Saxony State Opera Hannover, Aalto Theater Essen, the theaters Dortmund, Braunschweig, Kaiserslautern, Linz, Gelsenkirchen, Bern, Darmstadt and others. She made her US debut in 2007 at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, New York City, as „Grete“ in Franz Schreker’s opera „The Distant Sound“. In recent years she has made her debut with many key roles such as Isolde, Salome, Empress (R. St