Biography
After graduating from the Leningrad Conservatoire (N. Serval’s class), she joined the Leningrad Maly Opera Theatre Company.
In 1977-2017 she has been a soloist with The Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company.
Repertoire
Her Bolshoi Theatre repertoire includes the following, among other, roles:
Carmen (Bizet`s Carmen)
Ulrica (Verdi`s Un Ballo in Maschera)
Azucena (Verdi`sIl Trovatore)
Princess de Bouillon (Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur)
Marfa (Mussorgsky`s Khovanshchina)
Lyubasha (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride)
Marina Mnishek, Innkeeper (Mussorgsky`s Boris Godunov)
Olga (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin)
Polina, Countess (Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades)
Lyubov (Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa)
Morozova (Tchaikovsky’s The Oprichnik)
Spring (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden)
Siebel (Gounod’s Faust)
Fricka (Wagner`s Das Rheingold)
Helene Bezukhova, Akhrosimova (Prokofiev’s War and Peace)
Princess (Dargomyzhsky’s Rusalka)
Princess Clarice (Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges)
Amelfa (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel)
Marta (Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta)
Nenila (Tchaikovsky’s The Enchantress)
The Grandmother (Banevich`s The Story of Kai and Gerda)
Tours
She tours in Russia and abroad, makes regular concert appearances.
She took part in the Bolshoi Theatre and Teatro Carlo Felice (Genoa) co-production of Prince Igor singing the part of Konchakovna.
In 2005, she sang Countess in the premiere performances of The Queen of Spades at La Scala (conductor Yuri Temirkanov, director Stephen Medcalf). In the same year, she appeared at the Jan Kiepura Festival, in Poland.
Discography
Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta — Marta, conductor Vladimir Delman, Bmg Ricordi, 1994.
Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night — Hanna, conductor Alexander Lazarev, Capriccio, 1994.
Dargomyzhsky’s The Stone Guest — Laura, conductor Andrei Chistyakov, Russian Season, 1995.
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