Stephanie Maitland is a Scottish contralto on the Young Artist Programme 2020/2022 at the Wiener Staatsoper. This season she debuts a series of roles including Annina (La Traviata), Amme (Boris Godunov), Dritte Dame (Die Zauberflöte) and Floßhilde and Roßweiße (Der Ring). She is also the Alto soloist in a premiere production of Brahms’ Liebeslieder und Neues Liebeslieder Walzer with the Wiener Staatsballett. She also covers a variety of roles including Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro), Marthe (Faust), Auntie (Peter Grimes), Polina and Gouvernante (Pique Dame), Annina (Der Rosenkavalier), Brigitta (Die Tote Stadt), Schenkenwirtin (Boris Godunov), Erda and Erste Norn (Der Ring).

Her portayal of Annina in La Traviata at the Wiener Staatsoper was held in high esteem with the last line of Laura Servidei’s review for Bachtrack reading: “Honourable mention to Stephanie Maitland who sang Annina with a low-centred, powerful and smooth mezzo.” Another newspaper review read “… and Stephanie Maitland as the very powerful Annina sounded almost like a leading role.”

Last season at the Staatsoper Stephanie sang the roles of Die Schleppträgerin (Elektra) conducted by Franz Welser-Möst and Zweiter Knappe in Kirill Serebrennikov’s new production of Parsifal, conducted by Philippe Jordan. Other roles include Erste Magd (Elektra), Hippolyta (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Dryade (Ariadne auf Naxos), Rosette (Manon), La Principessa and Zita (Il Trittico), La Prieure (Dialogues des Carmélites), Mrs Grose (The Turn of the Screw), The Sandman (Hansel and Gretel), Madame By-Ends (Pilgrim’s Progress), and Lady Bertram (Mansfield Park). Stephanie was also a semi finalist in By Voice Alone and won a Singer’s Preparation Award from Audition Oracle. Stephanie actually started her vocal training in the Junior Chorus of the RSNO at the tender age of 11 and is so happy to be back where it all started!