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The German-speaking soprano of Tunisian descent, Yamina Maamar, has performed, in addition to her international artistic activities, at important German-speaking theaters such as the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Lower Saxony State Opera in Hanover, the Aalto Theater in Essen, the theaters in Dortmund, Weimar, and Bremen, the state theaters in Kassel, Nuremberg, Wiesbaden, Braunschweig, Darmstadt, and many others.
Here she made her debut in many central roles in her field: among them Isolde, Brünnhilde, Aida, Odabella, Lady Macbeth (Verdi), Adriana Lecouvreur, Kundry (Parsifal), Senta (The Flying Dutchman), Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier), Salome, Elisabeth (Don Carlos), Ariane (Ariane et Barbe-Bleue), Fidelio - Leonore, Wozzeck - Marie, Manon Lescaut (Puccini), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Shostakovich), and the Empress (Frau ohne Schatten). Her sung repertoire includes more than 80 roles.
Yamina Maamar recently founded a chamber music ensemble called YASIMILI with colleagues from Berlin and Leipzig. The group, consisting of violin, viola, piano, and vocals, will give its debut concert, partly featuring the violinist's own compositions, on September 28, 2025, at the historic Haydau Monastery. In spring 2026, she will also perform the role of "Kundry" in R. Wagner's "Parsifal" at the Lower Bavarian State Theater.
Important concert appearances have included multiple invitations to the International Edinburgh Festival (including Wagner's "Wesendonk - Lieder" with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra), a tour of England and the Netherlands (including "Les nuits d'été" by H. Berlioz with the Edinburgh Chamber Orchestra), the Seoul Arts Center (Beethoven's 9th Symphony), the Herkulessaal Munich (excerpts from "Tristan und Isolde"), the "Verdi - Requiem" with Enoch zu Guttenberg in Speyer Cathedral, concerts in the Great Broadcasting Hall of the WDR in Cologne (including excerpts from "Tannhäuser - Elisabeth"), a song recital in the Apollosaal of the Berlin State Opera, and "Tove" in Schönberg's "Gurrelieder" in the Berlin Cathedral.
She made her US debut in 2007 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, New York, as "Grete" in F. Schreker's "Der ferne Klang" with the American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leon Botstein. She later performed the same role in the US at the Sosnoff Theater Bard, built by Frank Gehry, under the direction of Thaddeus Strassberger.
Yamina Maamar has held a professorship for vocal performance at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden since 2019, is a lecturer at the Vocal Pedagogical Center of the BDG, and is regularly invited to give master classes.