Opéra de Lausanne

At the Opéra de Lausanne : Desdemona in Rossini’s Otello (February 2010).

Olga Peretyatko began her career at the Maîtrise du Théâtre Mariinsky in Saint-Pétersbourg. She left Russia for Germany and studied at the Hanns Eisler University in Berlin with Brenda Mitchel. She then joined the Hamburg Opera Studio  and the Académie Européenne de Musique of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. In 2007, Olga won the Second Prize at the Plácido Domingo Operalia Competition.

In 2009, Olga Peretyatko made a very well received debut at the Teatro Comunale in Bologny in the role of Gilda in Rigoletto. The same year, she sang the main part in Stravinsky’s Nightingale at the Canadian Opera. This production also opened the Festival of Aix-en-Provence in July 2010.

She has since sung Anna Truelove in The Rake’s Progress by Stravinsky and Susanna in Nozze di Figaro at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Susanna in Dresden, Adele in Die Fledermaus and the main role of the Nightingale in Lyon, Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Bayerische Staatsoper and the Barcelona Liceu, Desdemona in Rossini’s Otello in Lausanne, Gilda at La Fenice and Adina in L’elisir d’amore in Lille.

Other important engagements include : Corinna in Il viaggio a Reims with the Accademia Rossiniana at the Pesaro Festival, where she also sang Giulia in La scala di seta, Desdemona in Otello and Aldimira in Rossini’s Sigismondo. She also recorded La donna del lago there, conducted by Alberto Zedda. Olga Peretyatko is regularly invited to appear at the Folle Journée de Nantes and La Folle Journée in Japan, where she has sung in the Bel Canto style (Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini) and the Vier letzte Lieder by Richard Strauss ( broadcast live on ARTE). Olga Peretyatko has an exclusive contract with Sony Classics. Her first album will be out this year.