Awards
She won 1st prize at the All-Russian Bella Voce Competition of Vocalists (1998) and 1st prize at the XVIII Glinka Competition (1999); she carried off 2nd prize at the Contest of Vocalists, Prize-winners of International Competitions (Sobinov Festival, Saratov. 2000). She won a diploma at the lst Moscow International Festival of Organ Music.
Biography
Born in Moscow. In 1994, she completed her studies at the Music School (Professor N.K. Postavnicheva’s class) attached to Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. In 2000, she completed her studies at the Moscow Conservatoire (Irina Arkhipova’s class). During her studies at the Conservatoire she became soloist with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre. In 2000-16 she was the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company soloist.Repertoire
Her repertoire includes the following, among other, roles:Smeraldina (The Love for Three Oranges)
Dunyasha, Lyubasha (The Tsar’s Bride)
Bobylikha, Lehl (The Snow Maiden)
Laura (Iolanta)
Mlle. Dangeville (Adriana Lecouvreur)
Polina (The Queen of Spades)
Olga (Eugene Onegin)
Fyodor (Boris Godunov)
Fenena (Nabucco)
Meg Page (Falstaff)
Second Lady (Die Zauberfloete)
Princess Maria (War and Peace)
Page (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and of the Maiden Fevronia)
The other roles in her repertoire are:
Spring (The Snow Maiden)
Marina Mnishek (Boris Godunov)
Clara (Betrothal in a Monastery)
Carmen (Carmen)
Preziosilla (La Forza del Destino)
solo parts in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, Mass in B minor, Christmas Oratorio, Handel’s Dixit Dominus, Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater, Haydn’s St. Nicholas Mass, Mozart’s Requiem, Verdi’s Requiem, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, Mendelssohn’s Elijah oratorio, Tchaikovsky’s Moskva Cantata, Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky Cantata.
Tours
She has appeared at the following, among other, festivals: Irina Arkhipova presents (Chelyabinsk), the M.D. Mikhailov International Opera Festival (Cheboksari), Moscow International Festival of Organ Music, the Moscow Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music,Tribute to Bach International Festival of Organ Music (Kaliningrad), the N.A. Obukhova International Opera Festival (Lipetsk), Baltic Seasons (Kaliningrad), Chamber Music Festival (Ivanovo), Stavropol Musical Autumn, the Usedom Music Festival (Germany), the Seiler Music Festival at Kitzingen (Germany), the International Festival Court Music (Brussels), the Ibermusica World Orchestras International Festival (Spain, Portugal).She took part in the first Russian performances of Haydn’s St. Nicholas Mass (Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky) and La Marseillaise in Berlioz’s adaptation (Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, conductor Alexander Vedernikov).
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