Tatiana Monogarova begins the 2011-12 Season with revival performances of her highly successful appearance as Rusalka at the Semperoper Dresden.  She returns to The Bolshoi Theater for her signature role of Tatyana Eugene Onegin in a production by Dimitri Tcherniakov that was broadcast, cinecast, released on DVD, and which has also toured Europe.  She joins the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for The Bells under the baton of Robert Spano, and  sings Janacek’s Gagolithic Mass with Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Mariss Jansons.  She returns to Ljubljana State Opera for another production of Rusalka.

Last season Miss Monogarova made her role debut as Cio-Cio San Madama Butterfly at Opera de Dijon, and made another debut in the title role of Rusalka in a highly acclaimed appearance at the Semperoper Dresden.  She sang Donna Anna Don Giovanni at Oper Koeln, and appeared as Tatyana at the Staatsoper Hamburg, at Cincinnnati Opera and at Teatro Real, Madrid. She appeared at the BBC Proms for Les Noces under the baton of Ed Gardner.

Miss Monogarova was born in Moscow and studied voice at the Russian Academy of Arts. She made her international debut in Sergei Slonimsky’s opera The Master and Margarita with the Forum Theatre, Moscow, on tour in Germany under Mikhail Jurowski, and then as Xenia in Boris Godunov at La Fenice, Venice in 1995.

Engagements as Desdemona Otello, Pamina Die Zauberflöte, Tatiana Evgeny Onegin and Mimi La Boheme followed in Riga. She appeared as Tatyana, and the Countess Le Nozze di Figaro in Vienna, and in 2000 sang Pamina for the Opéra de Nantes. In the following season she returned to Nantes to sing Lisa Pique Dame, and in 2001 sang Julie The Jacobin in Wexford. She sang Lisa in her debut performance at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, at Oper Graz, at Teatro Comunale, Bologna, and in Modena and Ferrara.

The artist scored a considerable success in her Glyndebourne Festival debut in 2002 as Donna Anna Don Giovanni.  She repeated the role at the Stadttheater, Bern, in the following season, and  returned to the Wexford Festival in 2003/4 to sing Dorota in Schwanda the Bagpiper and a performance of Dvorak’s Stabat Mater. She also sang Tamara The Demon in Riga, the title role in Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen in Seville and took part in a performance of Les Noces for Kultur Ruhr in Essen under Hans Zender.

In season 2004-05 she sang Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare in Bern, Lisa at Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels and Desdemona at the Glyndebourne Festival. In 2005/6 she appeared as Mariya Mazeppa for Welsh National Opera, made her UK concert debut in Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14 and sang Rachmaninov’s The Bells at the BBC Proms, both under Vladimir Jurowski with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Other past appearances include Fevronyia The Invisible City of Kitzeh and the Maiden Fevronyia at the Teatro Lirico Cagliari,  Lisa at Welsh National Opera, Houston Grand Opera and in Milan, and Desdemona at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.

Her career to date includes appearances with such eminent conductors as Vladimir Spivakov, Vladimir Fedoseev, Vladimir and Mikhail Jurowski, Mikhail Pletnev, Alexander Vedernikov, Daniele Callegari, Andreas Spering, Louis Langree, Julian Reynolds, Normunds Vaicis, Tomas Netopil, Edo de Waart, Hans Zender and Kent Nagano. She sang Symphony Number 14 with Iceland Symphony Orchestra, The Bells at Hong Kong Arts Festival, Strauss’s Four Last Songs with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky’s Hamlet with the Orchestra of Age of Enlightenment under Vladimir Jurowski, and Martynov’s Vita Nova in London and New York.