Venera Gimadieva

Biography

Venera Gimadieva graduated from Kazan Musical College. In 2009 she graduated from the St. Petersburg State Conservatoire (Svetlana Gorenkova’s class).
In 2008 she joined the St. Petersburg Opera theatre.

In October, 2009, Venera Gimadieva joined the Bolshoi Theatre Young Artists Program.
In 2011-2017, she was a soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company.

Since 2023 has been a soloist with the Nizhny Novgorod Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Repertoire

At the Bolshoi:
Linda (Linda di Chamounix)
Sirin (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and of the Maiden Fevronia)
title role (The Snow Maiden)
The Tsaritsa of Shemakha (The Golden Cockerel)
Marfa (The Tsar’s Bride)
Xenia (Boris Godunov)
Violetta (La Traviata)
Amina (La Sonnambula)
A Voice from Heaven (Don Carlo)
Norina (Don Pasquale)

She sang Serpina in concert performance of Pergolesi’s La serva padrona with Moscow Chamber Orchestra Musica Viva, conductor Alexander Rudin. She performed at the Moscow Conservatoire Big Hall with Moscow Philharmonic Academic Orchestra, conductor Yuri Simonov. Concert performances in Moscow also included Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem with the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Pletnev at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.
Engagements include Violetta in La traviata (La Fenice, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Paris Opera, Opéra de Limoges, Opéra de Reims, Hungarian State Opera and Savonlinna Opera Festival), Gilda in Rigoletto (Hungarian State Opera), Juliette in Roméo et Juliette opposite Juan Diego Flórez in Lima and an appearance at the BBC Proms with the John Wilson Orchestra.
In the 2015-16 season she sang Violetta in La traviata at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Saxon State Opera Dresden and her USA debut at the Hollywood Bowl with the LA Philharmonic Orchestra. She also sang the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor in Limoges, Rheims and Rouen; Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi in concert at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Elvira in I puritani at the Teatro Real, Madrid.
In 2017 she performed Queen of Shemakha (The Golden Cockerel) at the Teatro Real, Madrid and Opera Santa Fe.
Engagements in the 2018-19 season include her debut at Washington National Opera (Violetta La traviata) and returns to the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Amina La sonnambula) and Semperoper Dresden (Violetta La traviata and Marguerite in a new production of Les Huguenots).

She has worked with conductors including Sir Mark Elder, Vasily Petrenko, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Ivor Bolton, Evelino Pidò,Tugan Sokhiev, Yves Abel, Domingo Hindoyan and Daniel Oren. She has worked with directors including Laurent Pelly, Paul Curran and Francesca Zambello and singers including Juan Diego Flórez, José Carreras, Aleksandra Kurzac and Roberto Alagna.

Discography

Venera Gimadieva’s discography includes her critically acclaimed performance as Violetta in Tom Cairns’s production of La traviata at Glyndebourne Festival Opera (Opus Arte 2014, DVD), The Queen of Shemakha in Laurent Pelly’s production of The Golden Cockerel at La Monnaie (Belair 2018, DVD) and the Operngala für die Deutsche AIDS-Stiftung (Naxos 2014, CD). Gimadieva’s first solo album Momento Immobile, produced by Artist Digital and released by Rubicon Classics in October 2018, is a collection of bel canto arias by Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini with The Hallé Orchestra conducted by Gianluca Marcianò.