Olga Sergeyeva (Soprano)
• Honoured Artist of Russia • Prize-winner at the I International Elena
Obraztsova Young Opera Singers’ Competition (St Petersburg, 1999) •
Recipient of the Golden Sofit, St Petersburg’s most prestigious the atre prize,
for her portrayal of the role of Fevronia in the opera The Legend of the
Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia (in the category “Best Female
Role in Opera,” 2001)
Olga Sergeyeva studied music at the Russian Gnesins’ Academy of Music (class
of Zara Dolukhanova). From 1998 to 2000 she was a soloist with the Novaya Opera
Theatre in Moscow, while in March 2000 she made her debut at the Bolshoi Theatre
(Moscow) as Aida (Aida). Since 2000 Olga Sergeyeva has been a soloist with
the Mariinsky Opera Company.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes: Nastasia
(The Enchantress) Liza (The Queen of Spades) Fevronia (The Legend of the
Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia) Renata (The Fiery Angel)
Pauline (The Gambler) Lyubka (Semyon Kotko) Hélène Bezukhova (War
and Peace) Katerina Izmailova (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) Lady Macbeth
(Macbeth) Amelia (Un ballo in maschera) Aida (Aida) Siébel (Faust)
Tosca (Tosca) Turandot (Turandot) Senta (Der Fliegende Holländer)
Brünnhilde (Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung) Isolde (Tristan
und Isolde) Barak’s Wife (Die Frau ohne Schatten) Elektra (Elektra)
The singer’s repertoire also includes the role of Wally (La Wally), Temara
(The Demon), Natasha (Rusalka) and the soprano role in Shostakovich’s Fourteenth
Symphony.
Olga Sergeyeva is a leading Mariinsky Opera Company soloist in the Wagnerian
repertoire.
Olga Sergeyeva has taken part in music festivals in Baden-Baden (Germany) and
Ravello (Italy) as well as the Verdi Festival in Parma (Italy); has toured to
Moscow, London, Manchester and Hong Kong.
In 2001 togethe r with the Mariinsky Opera Company she performed at the Royal
Opera House, Covent Garden, appearing as Amelia (Un ballo in maschera), Aida
(Aida) and Lady Macbeth (Macbeth). In 2002 she performed the role of Kuma
(The Enchantress) at the Opera House in Lisbon (conducted by Zoltán Peskó).
In 2004 Olga Sergeyeva made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera (New York),
where she performed the role of Brünnhilde (Die Walküre, opposite Plácido
Domingo as Siegmund, conducted by Valery Gergiev), and in 2005 she performed the
same role at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris (conducted by Christoph
Eschenbach). In 2006 she appeared in London (Royal Albert Hall) and Madrid
as Brünnhilde in the opera Siegfried with the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris
under Christoph Eschenbach. Since 2006 she has also appeared in the Mariinsky
Theatre’s triumphant touring performances of Richard Wagner’s tetralogy Der Ring
des Nibelungen in Tokyo, London (Covent Garden), Seoul, Moscow (Bolshoi
Theatre), New York (Metropolitan Opera) and Germany (Baden-Baden festival).
In 2008 in Madrid she performed the role of Tosca in the eponymous opera
(conducted by Valery Gergiev). She has performed Musorgsky’s Songs and Dances of
Death and the soprano role in Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony with the London
Symphony Orchestra (2006 and 2008, conducted by Valery Gergiev). Togethe r
with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra she performed the soprano role in
Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony in Stockholm, Vienna and Amsterdam
(Concertgebouw) in 2010, with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra in 2011
(conducted by Valery Gergiev). The same year, Olga Sergeyeva performed the
role of Barak’s Wife in Richard Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten and subsequently
appeared on tour with this project togethe r with the Mariinsky Theatre in
Slovenia, throughout Russia, Japan and Scotland (Edinburgh Festival). In 2011
she performed this role at festival in Mexico City and took part in a film
recording of the opera Die Frau ohne Schatten which was presented during the
Stars of the White Nights festival (St Petersburg).
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