One of the leading soprano from the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.
Appeared at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw, Buckingham Palace (as Desdemona in “Otello” partnered Placido Domingo and Valery Gergiev), La Scala, Metropolitan, Covent Garden among others.
Sung with New York Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Symphony, Netherlands Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony, Baltimore Symphony.
Collaborated with conductors Michael Tilson Thomas, Valery Gergiev, Kent Nagano, Alexander Vedernikov, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Neeme Järvi, Christoph Eschenbach, Antonio Papano, Helmut Rilling, Arvo Volmer, Yakov Kreizberg, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Maris Jansons,Yuri Temirkanov, James Conlon, Eri Klas, Gintaras Rinkevicius.
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Opera repertoire includes Aida in “Aida”, Primadonna in “Ariadne auf Naxos”, Leonora in “La forza del destino”, Elizabetta in “Don Carlos”, Desdemona in “Otello”, Elsa in “Lohengrin”, Sieglinde in “Walküre” – besides Russian operas.
The considerable concert repertoire includes the Verdi “Requiem”, the Mahler “Das Klagende Lied”, the Schubert “Salve Regina”, the Strauss “Vier Letzte Lieder”, Shostakovich’s Jewish Folk Poetry and Fleischmann’s “Rothschild’s Violin”.
Recorded for the Philips, BMG, Conifer, Chandos, Octavia, Supraphon and Hänssler labels.
The winner of the Gold Medallion Award in Rosa Ponselle International Competition For The Vocal Arts of 1992 and the silver-medal of the famed International Tchaikovsky Competition of 1990. While still a student at the conservatory, she was awarded a gold medal in Russia’s most prestigious national competition, The Glinka Competition.
Graduated of the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia where studied under Tamara Novichenko, one of Russia’s most famous teachers.
