Olga Peretyatko (Soprano)
Russian soprano Olga Peretyatko was born and raised in St. Petersburg. She
started her musical career at the age of 15, singing in the children’s choir of
the Mariinsky Theatre. She completed a course as a choirmaster and then enrolled
to study singing at the Hanns Eisler-Hochschule fьr Musik in Berlin. Olga
Peretyatko has won several awards in international competitions such as
Operalia, the opera competition organized by Plбcido Domingo, where she won
second prize.
From 2005 and 2007 Olga Peretyatko was a member of
the opera studio at the Hamburg State Opera. In subsequent years she performed
at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Berlin and Munich state operas, the Thйвtre des
Champs-Elysйes in Paris, La Fenice in Venice, at the Rossini Opera Festival in
Pesaro, and at the Festival La Folle journйe de Nantes.
Olga Peretyatko gained international attention as
Stravinsky’s Rossignol in the acclaimed Robert Le Page production that premiered
at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2010, followed by performances in Toronto,
New York, Lyon and Amsterdam. She achieved great success in her role debuts as
Adina in L’elisir d’amore in Lille, as Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro Massimo
Palermo, as Gilda in Rigoletto at La Fenice in Venice, as well as at the
Festival Avenches.
Recently, Olga Peretyatko debuted successfully as
Giulietta (I Capuleti e I Montecchi) in Lyon and Paris. In Lausanne she made her
debut in the title role of Handel’s Alcina, and in Amsterdam she had her role
debut as Fiorilla (ll Turco in Italia). Substituting for a colleague at the last
minute, her performance of Adina in L’elisir d’amore during the
Pfingstfestspiele in Baden-Baden was highly acclaimed by the media and the
public, as was her debut Lucia di Lammermoor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She
also received the highest acclaim at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro as
Matilde di Shabran in summer 2012 which will be released on DVD.
In 2013 and 2014, Olga Peretyatko’s commitments
include performances at the Mozart Weeks and at the Salzburg Festival (Giunia in
Lucio Silla), the Vienna State Opera (Rigoletto, I Puritani), the Berlin State
Opera and La Scala in Milan (Marfa in Die Zarenbraut), the Metropolitan Opera in
New York (Elvira in I Puritani, Gilda in Rigoletto), the Deutsche Oper Berlin
(Adina in L’elisir d’amore), the Hamburg State Opera (Adina in L’elisir d’amore,
and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos), at the Festival in Aix-en-Provence as
Fiorilla (Il Turco in Italia), and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (Il Turco
in Italia). Besides her opera career she continuously gives recitals and
concerts throughout Europe.
In 2015 Olga Peretyatko will debut as Violetta in
La Traviata at the Opйra Lausanne, followed by a new production of the same
title at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden.
She has an exclusive recording contract with Sony
Classical. Her first solo CD ‘La Bellezza del Canto’ with arias from Rossini,
Verdi, Donizetti, Massenet and Pucchini was released in 2011 and was highly
acclaimed by press and audience. Her second CD ‘Arabesque’ will be released in
summer 2013.
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