Opera Gala im Musiksaal der Minoritenkirche

Arias and songs by W. A. Mozart, G. Rossini, P. Tchaikovsky, G. Verdi, G. Bizet, G. Puccini.

is a postgraduate soprano at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, studying with Anne Mason and performing with the BBC National Chorus of Wales. She completed her undergraduate vocal studies at the Royal Academy of Music alongside a Music degree at Cambridge via CAMRAM, studying with Janice Watson and Mary Nelson. Her solo roles include Veronique (Le Docteur Miracle), Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore), Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), and Dido (Dido and Aeneas). She has sung in major choral works such as Verdi’s Requiem with BBC NOW and the WNO Opera Gala, and has received awards including the Elizabeth Sparks Singing Cup and a choral scholarship at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

is a baritone and member of the Wiener Staatsoper Opernstudio, praised for his warm voice and commanding stage presence. He trained at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and continued his development at institutions including the Mariinsky Theatre Young Singers Academy and the Berlin Opera Academy. Maksimov has sung plenty roles at the Staatsoper, including Masetto (Don Giovanni), Donald (Billy Budd), Pietro Fléville (Andrea Chénier), the Imperial Commissioner (Madama Butterfly), Paris (Roméo et Juliette), and leading roles at the Vienna Opera Festival such as the Count (Le nozze di Figaro) and Escamillo (Carmen). His repertoire spans Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, Puccini, Ligeti, and contemporary works. Maksimov also composes and performs his own music across Europe, bridging classic opera and new composition together.

is an Irish–American tenor and graduate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, where he studied with Dr Imelda Drumm. His roles include Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Don Basilio and Don Curzio (Le nozze di Figaro), Ernesto (La vera costanza), and modern repertoire such as The Man with the Shoe-Sample Kit (Postcards from Morocco). Recent seasons have seen him in French and Italian roles, including Giuseppe and Gastone (La traviata) and Don José (Carmen), making his Vienna Opera Festival debut in summer 2025. Before opera, Evan spent a decade as a professional magician and performance entrepreneur. He is also a composer and award-winning ballroom and Latin dancer. His first opera, CATHBAD, with his own libretto, was published in 2023, with the vocal score completed in May 2025.

Daria Iakubchik is a young soprano born in Saint Petersburg. She studied vocal performance at the E. A. Mravinsky School of Arts for Children and the Saint Petersburg School of Arts named after P. A. Serebryakov. She made her operatic debut in 2022 at the Taranto Opera Festival as Pastorello in Tosca. In 2024 she sang Despina in Così fan tutte at the Vienna Opera Festival, where she returned in 2025 as Frasquita. She studies at the AMADEUS Music and Arts Academy in Vienna and from September 2025 continues her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw) with Prof. Martin Vacha. Her repertoire includes Frasquita (Carmen) and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. She is a prize-winner of several international competitions, including Grand Prix awards at “Ciao Italia” (2022), “7 Giovani Talenti di Gorizia” (2024), and the International Nota Bene Competition (2025).

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Wiener Minoritenkirche, 2A Minoritenplatz, Wien, Austria

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