About
The mezzo-soprano studied in her hometown of St. Petersburg and was subsequently engaged at the Moscow Stanislaw Opera House. After the first prize at the ARD Music Competition in 2003, she became a member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater Nuremberg, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at the Opera Stuttgart, where she developed a wide Repertoire. Since 2013 she is a member of the Ensemble of the Staatsoper unter den Linden, and was here, among others as a composer ("Ariadne auf Naxos"), Marie ("Wozzeck"), Azucena ("Il trovatore"), Venus ("Tannhäuser"), Ulrica ("Un ballo in maschera"), Eboli ("Don Carlo") and Ljubascha ("the Tsar's bride"). She sang under conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta and Philippe Jordan, and worked with Directors such as Martin Kušej, Calixto Bieito and Sergio Morabito. Among her other signature roles, Amneris ("Aida"), Octavian ("der Rosenkavalier"), Marfa ("Khovanshchina"), Adalgisa ("Norma"), Waltraute (Götterdämmerung) and Brangäne ("Tristan and Isolde"), with which you will be playing at the Teatro alla Scala, Zurich Opera house, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Royal Opera Copenhagen, the Bayreuth festival, the Salzburg Easter festival as well as in Hong Kong, Santiago de Chile and Washington, was a guest. As a concert singer, she made her debut in Verdi's "Messa da Requiem" with the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of Mariss Jansons, the Symphony orchestra of the Bayerischer Rundfunk and the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.