Soloist of the Nizhny Novgorod Opera and Ballet Theater
2007 - laureate of the II International Competition-Festival "Modern Art and Education" (IV prize)
2009 г. - Laureate of the I International Rachmaninoff Vocalists Competition, Rostov-on-Don (3rd prize)
2010 г. - Finalist of the IV N. Obukhova All-Russian Vocalist Competition, Russia
2013 г. - Finalist of the Opera Competition in Minsk, Special Prize of the Latvian National Opera and the International Bruckner Festival in Linz
2015 г. - Winner of the I International Opera Singers Competition in Portofino, Italy (3rd prize)
2019 г. - BBC CARDIFF SINGER OF THE WORLD finalist
Music education
Graduated from the Academic Music School at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. In 2016. - Graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. Graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (class of Professor Yuri Grigoriev).
Creative Biography
Performed the role of Tangia ("Kitajinka" by C. W. Gluck) at the K. W. Gluck Moscow Academic Musical Theater. К. С. Stanislavsky and V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Musical Theater.
She took part in the production of the immersive opera The Queen of Spades at the Goncharov-Philippov Estate in Moscow (conducted by Andrei Rein and directed by Alexander Legchakov).
In 2015, she took part in concerts of the Bolshoi Theatre Youth Opera Program at the Beethoven Hall (Dmitry Shostakovich's Evening of Vocal Music and the festival "Baroque. Journey", Germany).
In 2016, she took part in the television vocalist competition "Grand Opera" on the TV channel "Culture".
In 2019, performed the role of Olga in Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin in Yuri Bashmet's version at the XI Yuri Bashmet International Music Festival at the Volkov Theater in Yaroslavl (conductor Yuri Bashmet, director I.A. Ilyin). Participated in the project "Carmen" in the concert hall "Zaryadye" (the role of Carmen, conducted by F.I. Chizhevsky, directed by M.V. Didenko, XIX Festival of Arts "Chereshnevy les").
In March 2020 she made her debut at the Bolshoi Theater, performing the role of the Sorceress in the play "Didon and Aeneas" (conducted by K. Moulds, directed by V. Uge).
Carmen ("Carmen" by J. Bizet)
Cherubino ("Le nozze di Figaro" by W. A. Mozart)
The Sorceress, the Spirit ("Didon and Aeneas" by G. Purcell)
Laura ("Iolanta" by Tchaikovsky)
Laura (Tchaikovsky's "Iolanta")
Olga ("Eugene Onegin" by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky)
Page (Salome by R. Strauss)
Polina ("Queen of Spades" by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky)
Rosina ("The Barber of Seville" by G. Rossini)
Sonya ("War and Peace" by Sergei Prokofiev)
Tanjia (The Chinese Girls by C. W. Gluck)
Concert repertoire
Romances by P. I. Tchaikovsky, S. V. Rachmaninov, M. I. Glinka, A. S. Dargomyzhsky, G. V. Sviridov
Cycles: A. Dvořák (Gypsy Songs), D.D. Shostakovich (Spanish Songs), cycle "From Jewish Folk Poetry".
Military songs, A. Novikov "Mother's Arioso".
Songs by A. Pakhmutova, A. German
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