Guzel Sharipova

Biography

Was born in Bakaly (Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia).
In 2006 graduated from the vocal department of the Ufa Art College (class of F. Nugumanova). From 2007 to 2012 she studied at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music (class of G. Oleinichenko), also taking vocal lessons from R. Sirikyan. In February she has attended master class by Maria Gulegina.

From 2009 to 2012 she sang in the Alexandrov Ensemble of the Russian Armed Forces, afterwards joined the theatre company Stage Entertainment, where she performed in the musicals The Little Mermaid and Phantom of the Opera (2012-2015).

In 2016-2018 she became the soloist with the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre (Vladivostok). In November 2017, she made her successful Mariinsky-II debut in St Petersburg as Gilda in Rigoletto.
Her repertoire at the Primorsky Stage includes the roles of Violetta (La traviata), Gilda (Rigoletto), Oxana (Christmas Eve), Swan-Princess (The Tale of Tsar Saltan), Pamina, Papagena, First Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Frasquita (Carmen), Ninette (The Love for Three Oranges), A Pale Lady (The Gambler), Brigitta (Iolanta, in concert).
Also in the repertoire: Prilepa (The Queen of Spades) and Marfa (The Tsar’s Bride).

Since September 2018, she has been a soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company.

Repertoire

At the Bolshoi:

Musetta (Puccini’s La Boheme)
Marfa (Rimski-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride)
Prilepa (Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades)
Frasquita (Bizet’s Carmen)
Norina (Donizetti’s Don Pasquale)
First Wood Nymph (Dvořák’s Rusalka)
Thibault (Verdi’s Don Carlo)
Susanna (Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro)
The Swan-Princess (Rimski-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Corinna (Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims)
Belinda (Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas)
Dalinda (Handel’s Ariodante)

Tours

In March 2019, she took part in Bolshoi’s tours to France, performing the parts of Prilepa/ Masha in The Queen of Spades concert version (conductor Tugan Sokhiev).