Biography

Born in Dnepropetrovsk in 1971.
In 1990, she graduated from the conducting-chorus department of the Glinka Music College in Dnepropetrovsk.
In 1997, she completed her studies at the vocal faculty at the Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music in Kiev (Galina Tuftina’s class).
Since 1997, she has been a Ukrainian National Opera Company soloist.

Repertoire

Carmen (Carmen)
Amneris (Aida)
Ulrica (Un Ballo in Maschera)
Fenena (Nabucco)
Azucena (Il Trovatore)
Eboli (Don Carlo)
Dalila (Saint-Saens’s Samson et Dalila)
Laura (Ponchielli’s La Gioconda)
Polina (The Queen of Spades)
Olga (Eugene Onegin)
Marina Mnishek (Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov)
Lyubasha (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride)
Konchakovna (Borodin’s Prince Igor)
Princess Clarice (Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges)
Sonyetka (Shostakovich’s The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Mezzo-soprano part in Verdi’s Requiem

She has toured in Canada, France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Turkey and other countries.

In 2008, she made her Bolshoi Theatre debut as Carmen.

Awards

A prize-winner at the International Competition for Young Singers (Germany, 1997)
A diploma-winner at the Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition (Finland, 1999)
A prize-winner at the International Byul-Byul Competition (Azerbaijan, 2000)
A prize-winner at the Alchevsky International Singing Competition (Ukraine, 2001)
A diploma-winner at the XII International Tchaikovsky Competition (Russia, 2002)
A prize-winner at the Klaudia Taev International Competition for Young Opera Singers (Estonia, 2005)