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American soprano Cynthia Makris has made an international reputation as an excitingly powerful and intensely personal interpreter of the great operatic heroines of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Cynthia Makris made her debut as Tosca in her homeland Colorado with the Denver Lyric Opera. She won the Metropolitan Opera District Auditions and the San Francisco Regional Opera Auditions as well as a prize for her portrayal of the three heroines in Les Contes d´Hoffmann.

Cynthia Makris' name is closely associated with Richard Strauss' Salome, which she has sung all over the world, including productions in Berlin, Tokyo, Strasbourg, Lisbon, Munich, the Australian Opera, the Scottish Opera, Hanover, Stuttgart, Helsinki, Philadelphia, and Rio de Janeiro.

Cynthia Makris´ portrayal of Lady Macbeth at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and in the ensuing video brought her international reputation. She repeated the role of Lady Macbeth at La Scala in December 1997 and at the Teatro Colon in May 1998.

Cynthia Makris' repertoire encompasses the dramatic coloratura roles of Bellini, Donizetti, Mozart and Verdi as well as the lyrical dramatic roles of Puccini, Strauss and Wagner. Her present roles include Norma, Anna Bolena, Abigaille, Lady Macbeth, Leonora in Forza and Trovatore, and Tosca, as well as Korngold´s  Die tote Stadt.  Recent additions are Beethoven´s Fidelio, Puccini´s Turandot and Minnie in La Fanciulla del West.          

Miss Makris has sung at La Scala, the Teatro Colòn in Buenos Aires, the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, the Bavarian State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the State Opera in Berlin, the Royal Opera in Stockholm, the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg, the Flemish Opera, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Teatro Bellini in Catania, the Opéra de Normandie, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Opéra Comique, the Finnish National Opera, the Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile, the New Tokyo Opera, and the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro.  

Since 1998 Miss Makris has been a regular guest at the Teatro Colòn, and since 1993 at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and since 1994 at the Finnish National Opera.

RECENT AND UPCOMING:

In fall 2001 she was featured in a production of Il Trovatore in Sao Paolo and Miss Makris made her debut as Minnie in La Fanciulla del West at the Finnish National Opera, a role she repeated at the Aalto Theater in Essen in the spring of 2002.  Song and opera concerts filled the summer of 2002, followed by Senta in Bonn and Wiesbaden in the fall.  Miss Makris made her debut at the Semper Oper in Dresden with Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera in November 2002.

January and February 2003 brought her to the New National Theater in Tokyo for a production of Arabella and to Helsinki for La Fanciulla.

Performances of Macbeth followed in Tallinn in April 2003 and in Santiago de Chile in May.  In the summer of 2003 Miss Makris sang the title role in Turandot at the Savonlinna Opera Festival. 

Lady Macbeth in Bonn and Leonora in Il Trovatore at the Finnish National Opera followed in autumn 2003.

Miss Makris is singing Minnie in Giancarlo del Monaco's production of La Fanciulla del West at the Teatro Regio in Torino in January and February 2004.

In March and April she will sing Norma in a new staging by Renata Scotto at the Finnish National Opera, a role she recently sang in Werner Schroeter's staging at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.

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