The Swiss soprano Maya Boog studied singing and church music in Lucerne, completing her training at the Cologne Musikhochschule in 1993, the winner of various awards, notably in the Barcelona Francisco Vinas Singing Competition. She made her début at the Municipal Theatre in Lucerne and also partcipated in the Zurich International Opera Studio. Her career has brought her engagements particularly in Baroque and Mozart operas in Darmstadt, at the Komische Oper in Berlin, in Mannheim, St Gallen and Drottningholm, as well as with the Vienna Volksoper and in the Salzburg Mozart Week. In 2000 she took the title rôle in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel at the Bregenz Festival, the following year making her début as Ilia in La Clemenza di Tito and joining the Basel Opera, where she has been seen as Pamina, Nanetta, Mélisande and Semele, among other rôles. She has appeared in oratorio and in Lieder recitals throughout Europe and in 2000 made her American début at Ann Arbor in Bach’s St Matthew Passion.