Biography

Praised for her “powerful and shimmering vibrato” (The Sleepless Critic), award-winning soprano Maria Bozich brings dynamic and commanding performances to audiences in her home city of Boston and across the United States. Upcoming in the 2025 season, she will sing the title role in the American premiere of Sibelius’ only opera, Jungfrun i tornet, presented in its original Swedish language in New England Conservatory’s renowned Jordan Hall.

In 2024, Ms. Bozich starred as Princess Ida in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida with the Sudbury Savoyards, earning critical acclaim: “Maria Bozich leads… with a commanding presence” (The Sleepless Critic), and “Her bell-like voice carried the show, and she played the role with an unwavering ‘adamance’” (Sudbury Weekly).

She appeared as Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen (2023) and Erste Dame in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (2022), both with Music On Site. That same year, she sang Leonora in Act 3 of Verdi’s Il Trovatore with New York Dramatic Voices. In 2020, she made her role debut as Elettra in Mozart’s Idomeneo at the New England Conservatory.

In summer 2019, Ms. Bozich joined Pittsburgh Festival Opera as a Studio Artist, where she sang the role of Gerhilde in the Jonathan Dove arrangement of Wagner’s Die Walküre and Iginia in the world premiere of Scandals, a one-act show about Puccini’s life. She also participated in the festival’s Mastersingers Project for Young Dramatic Voices, where she performed opera scenes as Senta (Der Fliegende Holländer) and Isolde (Tristan und Isolde). Earlier in the 2018–19 season, she made her role debut as the title character in Puccini’s Suor Angelica at the New England Conservatory.

Ms. Bozich spent three summers as an Apprentice Artist at the Miami Music Festival, where she sang the roles of Marie Antoinette (The Ghosts of Versailles), Antonia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), and Second Lady (The Magic Flute). Her appearance as Antonia touched audience members, and she “knew how to win the applause with her moving role” (El Nuevo Herald). While at the festival, she worked with renowned conductors and teachers such as Manny Perez, Stephanie Rhodes, Caren Levine, and Peter Grunberg.

Additional roles performed include Donna Anna in the first act of Don Giovanni and Second Witch in Dido and Aeneas. Partial roles and scene performances include Blanche (Dialogues des Carmélites), Adalgisa (Norma), Marguerite (Faust), Marenka (The Bartered Bride), Ortrud (Lohengrin), Female Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia), and Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte).

Awards and honors include an Encouragement Award in the Washington District of the 2018–19 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Second Prize in the Great Composers Competition for Best Rossini Performance, and First Prize in the 2014 Tahoma National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) competition. Ms. Bozich was selected as a semi-finalist in the Emerging Artist Division of the 2018 Classical Singer Competition.

Ms. Bozich holds both a Master’s Degree and a Graduate Diploma in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied with internationally renowned soprano and pedagogue Jane Eaglen.