Biography
Born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Graduated from the Leningrad State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 1994.
In 1993, while still a student, she was invited to join the Maryinsky Theatre Opera Company.
Repertoire
Marfa (Khovanshchina)
Marina Mnishek (Boris Godunov)
Konchakovna (Prince Igor)
Lyubava (Sadko)
Lyubasha (The Tsar’s Bride)
Lyubov (Mazeppa)
The Princess (The Sorceress)
Olga (Eugene Onegin)
Polina, the Countess (The Queen of Spades)
Clara (Betrothal in a Monastery)
Babulenka (The Gambler)
Fenena (Nabucco)
Ulrica (Un Ballo in Maschera)
Preziosilla (La Forza del Destino)
Eboli (Don Carlo)
Amneris (Aida)
Dalila (Samson et Dalila)
Carmen (Carmen)
Santuzza (Cavalleria Rusticana)
Varvara (Katya Kabanova)
Tours
Marianna Tarasova has toured extensively with the Maryinsky Theatre Opera Company in Finland, Italy, Great Britain, Israel, USA, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Portugal
Switzerland, South America.
She has collaborated with such conductors as James Levine, Claudio Abbado, Maris Jansons, Yuri Temirkanov, Antonio Pappano, Vladimir Jurowski, Semyon Bychkov, Mikhail Pletnev. She has appeared with
the London Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Russian National Orchestra and the St Petersburg Philharmonic.
In 1997, she sang Olga at the Metropolitan Opera (conductor Antonio Pappano) and at the San Francisco Opera (conductor Yuri Temirkanov).
In 1999, she appeared at Graz as Carmen.
In 2000, she sang Olga at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival and Varvara (Katya Kabanova) at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
In 2001, she performed Fenena at the Metropolitan Opera (conductor James Levine, director Elijah Moshinsky) and the part of Amneris at Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (Italy).
In 2002, she sang Polina at Teatro Comunale (Bologna, conductor Vladimir Jurowski, director Richerd Jones) and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (conductor Valery Gergiev, director
Francesca Zambello), Marina Mnishek at the Paris National Opera (conductor James Conlon, director Francesca Zambello).
In 2005, she performed Santuzza at the Welsh National Opera and at the Bern Stadttheater, Dalila at the New Israeli Opera.
In 2006, she sang Lyubov (Mazeppa) at the Welsh National Opera and at the Lyon Opera (conductor Kirill Petrenko, director Peter Stein; she later appeared in this production
at the Edinburgh Festival). In the same year, she performed Carmen at the Miskolc International Opera Festival (Hungary) and appeared with the Russian National
Orchestra on tour in Italy (conductor Vladimir Jurowski).
In 2007, she performed the part of Amneris at the Tampere Opera (Finland).
In 2008, she sang the Countess at the Lyon Opera (conductor Kirill Petrenko, director Peter Stein), Eboli at the Tampere Opera and Amneris at the New Naitonal Theatre in Tokyo
(conductor Riccardo Frizza, director Franco Zeffirelli).
In 2009, she performed Babulenka (The Gambler) at the Lyon Opera (conductor Kazushi Ono, director Grzegorz Jarzyna) and Dalila at the Flanders Opera (Belgium). In the same
year she took part in a concert performance of Vladimir Martynov’s opera Vita Nuova in London (world premiere, conductor Vladimir Jurowski).
Discography
Together with the Berlin Philharmonic and Claudio Abbado she has recorded excerpts from Khovanshchina for Sony Classical; with the Russian National Orchestra and Mikhail Pletnev she has
recorded Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony for Deutsche Grammophon and Taneyev's cantata At the Reading of a Psalm for Pentatone.
Took part in the recording of songs and romances by Borodin and Shostakovich for Delos.
With the Mayinsky Theatre Opera Company she has recorded Sadko, La Forza del Destino and Betrothal in a Monastery for Philips.
Awards
She has won many prizes at international competitions, including 1st prize at the International Dvorak Competition in Czech Republic (1990), the Maria Caniglia Competition in Italy (1992)
and the Munich Vocal Competition (1993).
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