Maya Yahav Gour

Israeli-Portuguese Maya Gour began her career as a jazz singer performing worldwide, particularly in NYC jazz clubs. After graduating from her vocal studies at the Mannes School of Music in NY she was immediately engaged by Seattle Opera for the role of Tisbe in La Cenerentola, and Hänsel by Marilyn Horne for Music Academy of the West. She then joined the Dutch National Opera as a studio member. 

Maya’s main stage engagements with the Dutch National Opera include Muriel in the World-Premiere of Raskatov’s Animal Farm, the Wood Sprite in Rusalka, Smeton in Anna Bolena in “Donizetti Queens in Concert”, Dritte Zofe in Der Zwerg, the Page in Salome, Flora in La traviata, Sesto (cover) in Giulio Cesare with Emmanuelle Haïm and Calixto Bieito, the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas, and Ariodante in a Handel concert directed by Christof Loy.    

For the 2023/24 season Maya will join the ensemble at Oper Köln where she will perform Siébel in Faust, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, and Giannetta in L’elisir d’amore.  Later in the season she will make her debut with the Hong Kong Philharmonic with Maestro Jaap van Zweden as Mary in Der fliegende Holländer and will be featured in a televised concert from St Petersburg’s "Classics at Palace Square". Future engagements include a return to the Dutch National Opera as Maddalena in Rigoletto, and her Italian debut as Amando in Le Grand Macabre for Teatro Massimo in Palermo.