Екатерина Кичигина

Biography

She graduated from the Choral Department of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music. While still a student, she joined the Vladimir Minin Moscow State Academic Chamber Choir.
Since 1995, has been a Novaya Opera Company soloist.

Repertoire

Fyodor (Boris Godunov)
Tatiana (Eugene Onegin)
Hen, Kitten (Valdgardt's The Cat's House)
Zinaida (Golovin's The First Love)
Belinda (Purcell's Dido and Aeneas)
Papagena, Second Lady (Die Zauberfloete)
Pisana (I Due Foscari)
Page (Rigoletto)
Annina (La Traviata)
Anna (Nabucco)
Nedda (Pagliacci)
Gianetta (L'Elisir d'Amore)
Title role (Salome)
Page (Lohengrin)
soprano parts in Mozart's Requiem and Verdi's Requiem

Awards

She was a diploma-winner at the International Chamber Singing Competition The Amber Nightingale (Kaliningrad, Russia, 1994) and at the International Competition of Vocalists in Pamplona (Spain, 1994).