Ġawhar Misjub: Soprano Mariah Costa

The production ‘Ġawhar Misjub – an Operatic Banquet’ includes operatic excerpts by different Maltese composers highlighting Malta’s rich heritage in operatic music. The production involves several artists including some solo voice students. Today we shall take a look at the biography of Mariah Costa. 

Mariah Costa is an eighteen year old soprano. She started singing at an early age with the Mirabitur Youth Choir under the direction of Ms. Simone Attard. She began her vocal training at the age of nine years old with Mezzo Soprano Karmena Radovska and continued her vocal studies with Mezzo Soprano Graziella Debattista. Mariah holds a Grade 8 certificate in Music Theory and Classical Voice. She is furthering her studies at Diploma level under the tutelage of Soprano Miriam Cauchi at the MAVC Malta School of Music. She receives operatic training and direction at same school,  where she has interpreted various roles including Contessa d’Almaviva (Mozart’s ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’), Anna (Puccini’s Le Villi) and Mimi (Puccini’s La Boheme) amongst other roles.  

She has attended workshops and masterclasses led by diverse pedagogues and singers, which include Soprano Barbara Frittoli, Soprano Miriam Gauci, Soprano Tatiana Lisnic, Soprano Juliette Bisazza Zanni, Tenor Jose Cura, Mezzo-Soprano Jennifer Larmore, Int. Baritone Professor Carlos Conde Gonzalez, Opera Director Vivienne Hewitt, Soprano Nicola Said and more.  

In 2018, she made her debut at the Teatru Manoel, in the opera ‘Corto Maltese’ composed and conducted by Maestra Monique Krus where she interpreted the role of Cranio. She has been part of the chorus in the operatic productions of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Puccini’s Tosca at the Teatru Manoel. Mariah was part of the adult choir in the opera film: Blat: City of Humanity. 

Mariah is a member of KorMalta, Malta’s national choir, under the direction of Maestro Riccardo Bianchi both as a chorister as well as a soloist. In addition, she forms part of ‘The Monteverdi Project in Malta’, under the direction of Maestro Marco Mencoboni and Soprano Gillian Zammit where she performs both solo and choral works. Mariah has also represented Malta in Latvia at the Talsumūzikas. 

‘Ġawhar Misjub – An Operatic Banquet’ will premier on the 27th of May 8 pm at St.Agatha Auditorium , Rabat.

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