Cynthia Makris - sopraano / laulunopettaja
Are you ready to take your singing to the next level?
Do you dream of singing to sold-out audiences in opera houses around the world?
Does singing give you absolute joy, maybe the greatest joy in your life?
Do you have a message to get out to the world?
What if you could work toward your goals with someone who will support you,
share your joy in every success and who has the skills to help you
become the phenomenal performer you were destined to be, confident and imminently capable?
What if the unique beauty of your voice could shine through in all its glory, and you could create magic every day with your singing?
I had teachers who believed in me and who changed my life. They were trained in the classical Italian tradition of bel canto, which is not only beautiful singing. It is also the ability to produce an even sound throughout the registers and to have all possible colors and shadings available to express from the most tender to the most dramatic emotions. This school of singing not only uncovers the beauty of the voice, it preserves the vocal instrument for a long and glorious career.
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Cynthia Makris brings 30 years of experience singing major opera roles in the leading opera houses of the world to her voice coaching. Her vast repertoire ranges from bel canto to dramatic, from Bellini, Donizetti, and Mozart to Verdi, Richard Strauss, and Wagner. Her career brought her to the stages of the world, including La Scala, Covent Garden, and the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. She has lived and worked in nearly every country in Europe, as well as Japan, Singapore, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Argentina. Makris has been praised not only for the beauty of her voice but also for the integrity, honesty, and depth of her portrayals of figures as diverse as Puccini’s fragile title heroine, Madama Butterfly, to Verdi’s Lady Macbeth or Strauss’ Salome, which she has performed over three hundred times on five continents.
Cynthia is multilingual and has sung in many languages. This, along with her knowledge of musical styles, makes her an ideal coach for the serious classical student. She also specializes in preparing young people for auditions and building the foundation for their vocal technique. Her students have been accepted into the prestigious Bak Middle School for the Arts and the Dreyfoos High School for the Arts, as well as receiving college scholarships to pursue degrees in vocal music.Cynthia has a B.A. in Music Performance and is a certified life coach and master practitioner of NLP. She is a very demanding teacher and expects her students to have a high demand of themselves. Understanding that the voice is a very intimate part of a person’s makeup, she is also very compassionate and positive and always on the side of the student, empowering at all times.
Ms. Makris teaches a natural and healthy approach to developing the voice, using the body’s own resonance chambers. It is especially important for children, whose voices are still developing, to learn a natural style of singing which will support the still maturing voice and not put unnecessary strain on the vocal chords. Classical Italian techniques uncover the natural beauty of each voice. The goal is an instrument which is integrated in all registers, which is capable of a wide variety of expression and has both power and beauty throughout.
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• Born in: Sterling, Colorado
• Bachelor of Arts in History and Vocal Music Performance at Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado
• Makris won the Metropolitan Opera Regional award for young singers as well the San Francisco Opera Regional award two consecutive years during her graduate studies in vocal performance at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received an award in 1982 from the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia for her performance of the three heroines in The Tales of Hoffmann. She was Artist of the Year of the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 2006, an award for her contribution to the festival since 1993, when she sang Lady Macbeth in Ralf Långbacka 's televised production of Verdi's opera.
• Professional Opera Debut: Puccini’s Tosca, title role, Denver Lyric Opera, 1979
• First European contract: Verdi’s La Traviata, Violetta, Graz
Opera House, Austria, 1979
• Covent Garden debut as Abigaille in Verdi’s Nabucco
• Debut as Lady Macbeth in Verdi’s Macbeth at La Scala and the
Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
• Directed by Harry Kupfer (Salome), Giancarlo del Monaco ( Minnie in La fanciulla del west and Lucia), Graeme Murphy (Salome), Jean-Claude Auvray (Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly and Amelia in Un ballo in Maschera), Werner Herzog (Venus in Tannhäuser) and Ralf Långbacka (Lady Macbeth)
• Repertoire ranges from bel canto to dramatic, from Bellini, Donizetti, and Mozart to Verdi, Richard Strauss, and Wagner. Her career brought her to the stages of the world, including La Scala, Covent Garden, and the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. She has lived and worked in nearly every country in Europe, as well as Japan, Singapore, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Argentina. Makris has been praised not only for the beauty of her voice but also for the integrity, honesty, and depth of her portrayals of figures as diverse as Puccini’s fragile title heroine, Madama Butterfly, to Verdi’s Lady Macbeth or Strauss’ Salome, which she has performed over three hundred times on five continents.
