Maya Hakvoort

Maya Hakvoort, October 2006

Maya Hakvoort (born 19 September 1966 in Nijmegen^[1]) is a Dutch musical actress.

Maya Hakvoort studied singing at the conservatory of Maastricht and acting and dancing at the kleinkunst-academy "De Trap" in Amsterdam, before she started gathering practical musical experience in Holland, Germany, Austria and Belgium.

She debuted in the musical "Jeans" in 1989. After numerous minor and greater roles she got her up to now most famous role in "Theater an der Wien" as Empress Elisabeth in the German-language musical Elisabeth in Vienna in 1994, replacing Pia Douwes.

Through playing the title role in Elisabeth she gained great recognition throughout Europe. Therefore, in 2005 and 2006, Hakvoort toured through Austria, Italy and Germany with her own solo tour "Maya goes solo".

In the beginning of 2007 Hakvoort and some of her colleagues of the United Stages of Vienna went to Japan to perform the musical Elisabeth there. By now, she has already played the role of "Elisabeth" more than 1000 times.

On 12 October 2007 her new solo tour "In My Life" premiered in Vienna.

Discography

• Elisabeth - live 1996
• In Love with Musical - live 1996
• Musical Christmas in Vienna 1996
• Musicalstars singen Weihnachtslieder 1996
• Ihr Männer 1997
• Shades of Night 1997
• That's Musical 1999
• Musical Changes 2000
• Duettalbum van Marco Bakker 2000
• There's No Business Like Showbusiness - live 2000
• Jekyll & Hyde - Wiener Productie 2002
• 10th Anniversary Concert Elisabeth 2002
• Elisabeth (5 Tracks) 2003
• Schlaraffenland 2003
• Elisabeth - 2004
• Musical Christmas in Vienna 2004
• Maya Goes Solo - 2005
• In My Life - 2008

References

1. ^ IMDB

External links

• Webpage

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