• Recipient of the 1st prize at the AIMS
Meistersinger Wettbewerb international vocalists’ competition (Graz,
Austria, 2002).
• Diploma-recipient at the Julián Gayarre
International Singing Competition (Pamplona, Spain, 2004)
• Recipient
of a Wagner Scholarship (2001)
Lead soprano at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Ukraine
(Kiev). Since 2008 at that theatre she has performed roles including Cio-Cio San
(Madama Butterfly), Manon Lescaut (Puccini’s Manon Lescaut),
Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana), Aida (Aida), Elisabeth
(Don Carlo), Iolanta (Iolanta), Militrisa
(The Tale of Tsar Saltan), Oxana (A Zaporozhian Cossack
beyond the Danube) and Natalka (Natalka Poltavka).
From 2002 – 2008 she collaborated with the opera houses in Graz and
Linz (Austria), appearing in the roles of Vitellia
(La clemenza di Tito), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni),
Giulietta (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Nedda
(I pagliacci), Micaëla (Carmen), Mimì
(La Bohème), Rusalka (Dvořák’s Rusalka) and Leonora
(Il trovatore).
In 2011 she performed the role of Magda Sorel in Gian Carlo
Menotti’s opera The Consul (London). At the Donetsk
State Academic Solovyanenko Opera and Ballet Theatre she performed the role
of Senta in a German-Ukrainian co-production of the opera
Der Fliegende Holländer (2012). She toured to opera houses
in Odessa, Lvov and Kiev with this production, a unique project for
Ukraine. In late 2013 she toured to Germany with this production.
After graduating from the Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music
in Kiev, Lesya Alekseyeva continued her music studies at
the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (Graz, Austria), receiving
an MA (opera singing). She was taught by Josef Loibl and Claudia Rüggeberg as
well as Regina Resnik, under whom Lesya trained in Treviso (Italy).
On numerous occasions she has given recitals in Prague (Czech Republic),
Vienna, Graz and Linz (Austria), Munich (Germany), Brussels (Belgium), New York
(USA), London (Great Britain) and Palermo (Italy) where she performed Richard
Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder and Richard Wagner’s
Wesendonck-Lieder in addition to opera arias.
Regularly
features in chamber music concerts in Ukraine and abroad.
In particular, she has recorded Shostakovich’s series of romances to verse
by Blok (Op. 127) on Austrian radio.