Los Angeles-born soprano Maria King holds a BA in Music from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Irving Berlin Charitable Scholarship for Music and the Performing Arts. She also completed studies at the Manhattan School of Music and at the University of Florence, where she developed her facility in Italian language and pursued an interest in Italian poetry and literature.

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Among her roles are Floria Tosca in Puccini’s Tosca, Turandot in Puccini's Turandot, and Brünnhilde in Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen. Recent and coming engagements include Elisabetta in Verdi’s Don Carlo in Bergamo, Italy, Mother in Hansel and Gretel with Berlin’s Alltagsoper, Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann with Berlin’s Passaggio Oper, and Composer in Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos and Donna Anna in Mozart’s