• Prize-winner at the III International Boris Shtokolov Competition
(St Petersburg, 2012)
• Prize-winner at
the I All-Russian Vissarion Shebalin Competition (Omsk, 2012)
• Diploma-recipient at the V All-Russian Nadezhda Obukhova
Competition (Lipetsk, 2012)
• Diploma-recipient at
the I International Fedora Barbiere Mezzo-Soprano Competition
(St Petersburg, 2012)
• Diploma-recipient at
the XIV All-Russian Bella voce competition
(Moscow, 2006)
Born in Baku (Azerbaijan). Graduated as an opera singer from
the Baku Gadzhibekov Academy of Music in 2008.
At
the conservatoire’s opera studio she performed the roles of Rosina,
Lyubasha and Carmen.
In 2008 she trained at the Mariinsky Theatre
Summer Academy in Mikkeli (Finland) where she took part
in master-classes given by Elena Obraztsova, Makvala Kasrashvili, Vladimir
Atlantov and Larisa Gergieva as well as concerts by the Mariinsky Academy
of Young Opera Singers.
Soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young
Opera Singers since 2006.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
The Stepmother, Second Mermaid (May Night)
Polovtsian
Maiden (Prince Igor)
Ines (Il trovatore in concert)
Third Nymph (Dvoшбk’s Rusalka)
Rosalia (Westside
Story)
Hermia (Midsummer night dream)
the alto role
(Mozart’s Requiem)
the Wood Nymph (Rusalka)
Repertoire also includes: Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Amneris
(Aida), Dulcinйe (Don Quichotte), Polina (The Queen
of Spades), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Lyubasha (The Tsar’s
Bride), Hanna (May Night), Schwertleite
(Die Walkьre) and Grusha the Gypsy (The Enchanted
Wanderer).
In 2010 she made her debut at the Baku State Opera and Ballet Theatre as
Carmen (conducted by Andrei Anikhanov).
In 2011 she appeared in recital
with Larisa Gergiev in Rome, and she also took part
in the festival Virtuosi of Brazil at which she performed
the alto role in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.
In
2012 she took part in the International Valeria Barsova and Maria
Maksakova Festival (Astrakhan) and the festival Larisa Gergiev
Invites (Vladikavkaz) where she appeared in gala concerts as well as
performing the role of Fatima in the premiere of Khanedanian’s
opera Tamara and David.
Has given recitals on tour in Denmark,
Sweden and Turkey.