Maya Hakvoort is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 musical

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 actress.

Maya Hakvoort studied singing at the conservatory of Maastricht

Maastricht

Maastricht is situated on both sides of the Meuse river in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, on the Belgian border and near the German border...

 and acting and dancing at the kleinkunst-academy "De Trap" in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

, before she started gathering practical musical experience in Holland, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 and Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

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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

Elisabeth of Bavaria

Elisabeth of Austria was the spouse of Franz Joseph I, and therefore both Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary. She also held the titles of Queen of Bohemia and Croatia, among others...

 in the German-language musical Elisabeth

Elisabeth (musical)

Elisabeth is a Viennese, German-language musical commissioned by the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien , with book/lyrics by Michael Kunze and music by Sylvester Levay. It portrays the life and death of the Empress consort of Austria, Elisabeth of Bavaria, wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I...

in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

 in 1994, replacing Pia Douwes

Pia Douwes

Pia Douwes is a Dutch musical theatre actress who is extremly successful in Europe.- Biography :Douwes was born in Amsterdam, North Holland as Petronella Irene Allegonda Douwes, to an arts dealer and a social worker and the grandniece of Doris Day...

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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
  Elisabeth (musical)
  Elisabeth is a Viennese, German-language musical commissioned by the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien , with book/lyrics by Michael Kunze and music by Sylvester Levay. It portrays the life and death of the Empress consort of Austria, Elisabeth of Bavaria, wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I...
  
  - 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

External links

• Webpage