Opéra de Lausanne

Debut at the Opéra de Lausanne.

Born in 1987, she began her musical studies at the age of five. At very young age she won first prizes at several vocal competitions in Russia.

In 2004/05 she studied at the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (Faculty of Musical Theater) in Moscow, where she worked with the famous vocal teacher Evgeniy Zhuravkin. From 2005 to 2007 she studied at the vocal department of the Moscow State Conservatory College. She took part in master classes with Makvala Kasrashvili, Sergei Leiferkus, Thomas Quasthoff and Christa Ludwig.

In 2008 she was a finalist at the “Competizione dell’Opera” in Dresden, and participated in a production of Puccini’s Suor Angelica at the Academy of Theater Arts in Moscow, where, in the Autumn of 2008 she sang the contralto solo in Mozart’s Requiem, and in December of 2008 she sang the mezzosoprano solo in the Oratorio de Noël by Saint-Saëns. In January 2009 she was awarded the Special Prize of the Jury at the Francisco Viñas Competition in Barcelona.

In the summer of 2009 she was member of “Young Singers Project” at the Salzburg Festival, where she has rehearsed as Irene in Händel’s oratorio Theodora and as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro. She also took part in a concert under the baton of Ivor Bolton as well, within the program of the Salzburg Festival. From October 2009 she is a member of the Atelier Lyrique at the Opéra National de Paris.

In May of 2010 she sang the role of Giuditta in Mozart’s La Betulia liberata, in a new production of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, under the baton of Riccardo Muti; this production will also be revived at Ravenna Festival (July 2010).
In August of 2010 she performed as Marchesa Melibea in Il viaggio a Reims in the “Accademia Rossiniana” production at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.

She opened the 2010/11 season performing Evgenij Onegin (Olga) at the Opéra National de Paris, followed by Händel’s Messiah at the Den Norske Opera in Oslo and at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC (National Symphony Orchestra), in both cases under the baton of Rinaldo Alessandrini.

Among her future plans are Gluck’s Orphée et Euridice (Orphée), Massenet’s Manon (Rosette) and Prokofiev’s L’amour des trois oranges (Nicoletta) at the Opéra National de Paris, Rusalka (Third Nymph) at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Evgenij Onegin (Olga) at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Vivaldi’s Farnace in  a tour of concerts under the baton of Diego Fasolis, and a recital at the Musashino Cultural Foundation.