She received her professional education at the Voronezh State Academy
of Arts (K.V. Gornova’s class) and at the Irina Arkhipova
International Master-classes.
From 1994-98, she was
a soloist with the Voronezh State Opera and Ballet Theatre.
From
1998-99, she sang for Moscow’s Novaya Opera
Company.
Since 2001, she has been appearing at the Mariinsky
Theatre.
In 2003, she made her debut at the Bolshoi Theatre.
Repertoire
Her repertoire at the Bolshoi includes:
Ulrica
(Un Ballo in Maschera)
Lyubasha (The
Tsar’s Bride)
Lyubov
(Mazeppa)
Helene Bezukhova (War and
Peace)
Princess Evpraksia Romanovna (The
Enchantress)
Her repertoire also
includes:
Azucena
(Il Trovatore)
Amneris
(Aida)
Eboli (Don
Carlos)
Olga (Eugene
Onegin)
Polina, the Countess (The Queen
of Spades)
Ratmir (Ruslan and
Lyudmila)
Konchakovna (Prince
Igor)
Marfa (Khovanshchina)
Marina
Mnishek (Boris Godunov)
The Princess
(Rusalka)
Princess de Bouillon (Adriana
Lecouvreur)
Title role
(Carmen)
Dalila (Samson
et Dalila)
Santuzza (Cavalleria
Rusticana)
Tours
She often participates in music festivals, for instance: Irina
Arkhipova presents, Mariynsky in Baden-Baden; the Verdi
Festival in Poznan, the Paderewski Festival in the city
of Bydgoszcz (Poland). She also sang at a gala performance
at the Karlsruhe opera-house.
In 2003, she sang Amneris
at the Stars of the White Nights Festival,
in Saint-Petersburg; she appeared in a project of Mstislav
Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya dedicated to the opening of the
memorial Church on the Blood in Yekaterinburgh (Marfa
in Khovanshchina); she appeared in the Mussorgsky song cycle
Songs and Dances of Death, with the National Philharmonic
Orchestra of Russia conducted by Vladimir Spivakov, on the
occasion of the opening of Moscow’s International House of Music;
she sang the title role in a production of Mussorgsky’s
Salammbo in Munich (a concert performance conducted
by Mstislav Rostropovich).
In 2004, she sang Amneris
at a premiere performance of Aida, directed
by Dmitri Tchernyakov, at the Novosibirsk State Opera and Ballet
Theatre. Not long before this premiere, she sang Amneris at the 23rd
International Chaliapin Festival. In the same year she sang this role
at the May Opera Evenings Festival in Skopje (Macedonia).
In April, 2004, she gave a solo concert at Moscow’s International
House of Music. In October of the same year, she took part
in a performance of the song cycle Songs and Dances
of Death at the 7th International Vladimir Kraynev
invites Competition (Kiev). In November of the same year she took
part in a performance of Mahler’s Third Symphony at the Big
Hall of Moscow Conservatoire (conductor Teodor
Currentzis).
In January-February 2005, she sang the role
of Eboli in a new production of Don Carlos
in Bielefeld (Germany). In april 2005 she took part
in a concert performance of Nabucco at Moscow’s
International House of Music (conductor Daniel Lipton).
In September-October of the same year she sang Solokha (Tchaikovsky’s
The Slippers) at La Scala.
In 2006, she sang
Amneris at La Scala (conductor Riccardo Chailly).
In 2007,
she took part in a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (conductor Mikhail Pletnev) and
of Mahler’s Second Symphony at the Big Hall of Moscow
Conservatoire (conductor Teodor Currentzis).
In 2008, she sang
Azucena at Teatro Massimo (Catania), Santuzza at Mikhailovsky Theatre
(Saint-Petersburg), took part in a performance of Verdi’s Requiem
at De Doelen concert hall (Rotterdam).