As the Queen of Shemakha
in The Golden Cockerel.
Photo by Larisa Pedenchuk.
 
 

Awards

Award winner at the Maria Callas Singing Competition in Athens (2nd prize, 1999) and at the Romansiada-1998 competition for young interpreters of the Russian romance (1st prize).

Biography

In 1993 she completed her studies at the Gnesin Мusic College (V. Alexandrova’s class) and in 1998 she graduated from the singing department of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (V. Gromova’s class). She studied singing with G. Kuznetsova. In 1999, she studied singing in Greece.
She has collaborated with Moscow’s Theatre Novaya Opera.
She joined the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company in 1999. Now she appears at the Bolshoi as guest soloist.

Repertoire

Her repertoire at the Bolshoi includes the following, among other, roles:

Violetta (La Traviata)
Rachelina (La Molinara)
The Queen of Shemakha (The Golden Cockerel)
Title role (The Snow Maiden)
Oscar (Un Ballo in Maschera)
Nun (The Fiery Angel)
Antonida (Ivan Susanin)
Refugee (The Children of Rosenthal)
The Queen of the Night (Die Zauberfloete)
Prilepa (The Queen of Spades)

Also in repertoire:
Musetta (La Boheme)
Marfa (The Tsar’s Bride)
Francesca (Francesca da Rimini)
Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Gilda (Rigoletto)