Maya Hakvoort (born 19 September 1966 in Nijmegen) is a Dutch musical
actress.Maya Hakvoort studied singing at the conservatory of
Maastricht and acting and dancing at the Kleinkunst-academy in
Amsterdam, before she started gathering practical musical experience
in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Belgium.She debuted in the
musical "Jeans" in 1989. After numerous minor and greater roles in
"Chicago", Les Misérables and "GaudÃ" she got her most famous role
to date in 1994 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. In 1999 she played Fantine in Les
Misérables in Duisburg, Germany. Then she got the part of "Rose" in
"Aspects of Love" in Bern, Switzerland. As the Swiss didn't want to
let her go, she played Milady de Winter in George Stiles "The Three
Musketiers" in St Gallen. Back in her homeland she toured with
"There's no business like Showbusiness" before she went back to Vienna
to play the role of Lisa in Frank Wildhorns "Jekyll and Hyde" Ten
months after giving birth to her first child she made a revival as
"Elisabeth" in Theater an der Wien 2003
actress.Maya Hakvoort studied singing at the conservatory of
Maastricht and acting and dancing at the Kleinkunst-academy in
Amsterdam, before she started gathering practical musical experience
in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Belgium.She debuted in the
musical "Jeans" in 1989. After numerous minor and greater roles in
"Chicago", Les Misérables and "GaudÃ" she got her most famous role
to date in 1994 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. In 1999 she played Fantine in Les
Misérables in Duisburg, Germany. Then she got the part of "Rose" in
"Aspects of Love" in Bern, Switzerland. As the Swiss didn't want to
let her go, she played Milady de Winter in George Stiles "The Three
Musketiers" in St Gallen. Back in her homeland she toured with
"There's no business like Showbusiness" before she went back to Vienna
to play the role of Lisa in Frank Wildhorns "Jekyll and Hyde" Ten
months after giving birth to her first child she made a revival as
"Elisabeth" in Theater an der Wien 2003
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