Soprano
Eugenia Sotnikova
"...Eugenia Sotnikova's long phrases revealed a depth of spirit in music and words."
New York Classical Review
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Guest soloist with the Bavarian State Opera

  • 2015 г. - Awarded the Munich Opera Festival Prize (for the role of Jammy in the Bavarian State Opera's production of Wilhelm Tell).
  • 2013 г. - Winner of the First Global Internet Vocal Competition-Renato Bruson International Competition (Moscow)
  • 2010 г. - Finalist of the Belvedere International Vocal Competition (Vienna)
  • 2009 г. - Winner of the special jury prize of the Dresden International Vocal Competition - Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation Scholarship for Young Musicians
  • 2008 - laureate of the II International Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Singers Competition (3rd prize; Moscow)
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Music education

2003 г. - Graduated from the D. D. Shostakovich Kurgan College of Music, specializing in choral conducting.

In 2008 graduated from the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory (class of Associate Professor E.K. Perlasova). In 2008 she graduated from the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of Associate Professor E.K. Perlasova). In the opera studio of the conservatory she sang the title role in the opera "Iolanta" by P. Tchaikovsky, as a soloist of the Moscow Theater of the New Opera named after E.V. Kolobov (2007-2009) - the role of Tatiana in "Eugene Onegin" by P. Tchaikovsky.

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Creative Biography

In 2009, after a successful performance at the International Competition in Dresden, she was accepted into the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and in 2011 became a soloist at the theater. She has performed the roles of the First Nymph (Rusalka by A. Dvořák), Frasquita (Carmen by J. Bizet) and Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro by W.A. Mozart). She performed with the theater troupe at the Champs Elysees Theater in Paris, toured with concerts in Berlin and the UAE.

In 2012 she made her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival in A. Dvořák's Rusalka (The First Nymph).
In 2013 she performed at the Klagenfurt State Theater (Austria) as Elijah (Mozart's Idomeneo) and Leila (Bizet's The Pearl Seekers), and also took part in a performance of Bruckner's Te Deum.
In Zurich's Tonhalle Concert Hall she performed the soprano part in Stravinsky's "The Wedding" (conducted by David Zinman).
In the same year, as part of the festival "Under the Cover of Music" in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, she took part in the performance of J.S. Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" (with the Tchaikovsky Great Symphony Orchestra). P.I. Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra conducted by V. Fedoseyev).

In 2014 she made her debut in the role of Jamie in the opera Wilhelm Tell by J. Rossini (produced by the Bavarian Opera; conductor-producer Dan Ettinger, stage director Anto Romero Nuñez), performed at the opening of the Munich Opera Festival. In the same year, at the German Ruhrtriennale Festival, Eugenia made her debut with great success in the opera Matter by contemporary Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, performing the role of Nun Hadewijch; in 2016 she performed in the same role at New York's Park Avenue Armory Center for the Arts (USA). At the Estonian National Opera she first performed the title role in N. Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden.

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In 2015 she performed for the first time at Rome's Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in I. Stravinsky's The Wedding (conducted by Pablo Eras-Casado).
In 2016 she sang the role of Countess Almaviva in W.A. Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro at the Ofelia Live music festival in Copenhagen (Denmark) and at the Malmö Opera House (Sweden; conductor-producer Evan Rogister, stage director Peter Stein).

Engagements for 2017 include: Gemmi ("Wilhelm Tell") at the Bavarian State Opera and Countess Almaviva ("Le nozze di Figaro") at the Estonian National Opera.

In November 2020 there was a performance on the stage of the Philharmonia-2, S. V. Rachmaninoff Concert Hall, and on the stage of the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. Evgeniya performed fragments of R. Strauss' opera "The Cavalier of the Rose" together with the Svetlanov GASO orchestra. Conductor - Vladimir Jurowski

She has collaborated with conductors such as Vladimir Fedoseyev, Kirill Petrenko, Andris Nelsons, Kent Nagano, Asher Fish, Paolo Carignani, Fabio Luisi, Konstantinos Karidis, Theodor Kurtenzis, Dan Etinger, Tomasz Hanus, Jakub Hrucha, Eugene Kohn, David Zinman, Sergei Violin, Peter Rundel; and directors such as Arpad Schilling, Anto Romero Núñez, Martin Kuschey, Heiner Goebbels, Richard Brunel and Peter Stein.

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Opera parts:

The Snow Maiden ("The Snow Maiden" by N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Elijah ("Idomeneo" by W. A. Mozart)
Leila ("The Pearl Seekers" by J. Bizet)
Sister Constance ("Dialogues of the Carmelites" by F. Poulenc)
Hadeweig ("Matter" by L. Andriessen)
The First Nymph ("Rusalka" by A. Dvořák)
Jammy (William Tell, D. Rossini)
Despina ("That's what all women do," W.A. Mozart)
Countess (The Marriage of Figaro, W. A. Mozart)
Pamina ("The Magic Flute" by W. A. Mozart)
Marfa ("The Tsar's Bride" by N. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Juliet ("Capuletti and Montague", V. Bellini)
Violetta ("La Traviata" by G. Verdi)
Lauretta ("Gianni Schicchi" by G. Puccini)
Nanetta ("Falstaff" by G. Verdi)
Sophie (The Cavalier of the Rose by R. Strauss)
The fifth servant girl ("Elektra" by I. Strauss)
Iolanta ("Iolanta" by P. I. Tchaikovsky)
Tatiana ("Eugene Onegin" by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky)
Alekha ("From the House of the Dead" by L. Janacek)
Oscar ("The Masquerade Ball" by G. Verdi)

Concert repertoire:

А. Bruckner "Te Deum"
А. Bruckner "Mass d-moll".
В. A. Mozart. Mass "Vesperae solennes de confessore".
В. A. Mozart. Motet "Exsultate, jubilate".
В. A. Mozart "Requiem".
В. A. Mozart "Coronation Mass".
В. W. A. Mozart. Great Mass in C minor
Л. Beethoven. 9th Symphony
Д. B. Pergolesi "Stabat Mater"
Й. Haydn "Theresa Mass"
И. JohannSebastian Bach "Christmas Oratorio" (I and VI parts)
С. S.V. Rachmaninoff "The Bells"
С. V. Rachmaninov. Romances

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