Biography

Maureen Brabec is a dramatic soprano based in Berlin, Germany. In the 2023-2024 season, she made her European and role debut as the titular character in Puccini's Turandot with Landestheater Detmold in Nordrhein-Westfalen. In May 2023, she sang Elsa in a concert of scenes from Lohengrin with the Wagner Society of Washington, DC and in July 2022, she covered Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer with Opera Maine - the first Wagnerian production in the company’s history. Other recent performances include Myrrhine in Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s film of Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata, Aunt Norris in Dove’s Mansfield Park, and Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte. She has prepared Sieglinde (Die Walküre), Elsa (Lohengrin), Leonore (Fidelio) and Chrysothemis (Elektra) with the support of the American Wagner Project. She is the 3rd Prize Winner of the 2022 Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition, an Encouragement Award recipient from the 2023 Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, the 2021 recipient of the Phyllis Curtin Artist Award and the Audience Favorite Winner of the 2021 Partners for the Arts, Inc. Competition. Between 2018-2019, she sang Mamousia in the West Coast premiere of Janice Hamer’s Lost Childhood, La Condesa in the first workshop of Carla Lucero’s Juana, and made her principal role debut as Susan B. Anthony in Thomson's The Mother of Us All with Opera UCLA. In June 2018, she covered the role of Prima Donna/Ariadne in Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos at Miami Music Festival. Ms. Brabec has her MM in Voice from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.