| Irina Romishevskaya, mezzo-soprano. She graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory in 1990 and completed her post-graduate studies with professor Pisarenko in 1993. For several years she worked in Japan as a teacher in a musical college and as a soloist of the Tokyo Opera. She sang in Bizet’s Carmen, Rossini’s La Cenerentola and Il barbiere di Siviglia, Verdi’s La traviata and La forza del destino, and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Since 1994, Irina Romishevskaya has been a leading soloists of the Novaya Opera. She constantly takes part in the Novaya Opera tours in Russia and abroad. The singer gives a lot of concerts. She performs recitals in Moscow and other Russian cities and towns, in Japan and Iceland. She sings with symphony orchestras in the best concert halls of Moscow, France, Japan, Germany and Italy. She participates in international festivals (Svyatoslav Richter’s December Nights in Moscow, Jurmala-classique). Irina works with prominent conductors such as Vladimir Spivakov, Alexander Rudin, Yuri Bashmet, Vasily Sinaisky, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Boris Tevlin, to mention but a few. The singer’s concert repertoire includes western early music, works by Russian and foreign composers, modern pieces, sacred songs, romances, Russian, Welsh and Scottish folk songs, etc. She was the first to perform the mezzo-soprano part in the premiere of Sidelnikov’s Death of the Poet oratorio-requiem (Moscow, September 29, 1999) and in the premiere of St Matthew Passion oratorio by Hilarion, the Bishop of Vienna and Austria (Moscow, March 27, 2007). She participated in the first performance in English of Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus oratorio on December 16, 2001. The singer’s mastery is captured on CDs released by Relief, Deonika, and the Novaya Opera Theatre. Recordings with her performances were often broadcasted by the Orfeus Radio station, the TV Centre and Blagovest TV Channels. Irina Romishevskaya is a teacher at the Solo Singing Department of the Moscow Conservatory. She gives singing master classes in Jurmala. Awards and Honours- Honored Artist of Russia
- Prize-winner of For Devoted Service to Opera Art Award by the Evgeny Kolobov Foundation
- Prize-winner of Minion International Competition (3rd prize, Japan, 1990)
- Prize-winner of the Hertogenbosch International Competition in Netherlands (1st prize, 1990)
- Prize-winner of the Hertogenbosch International Competition in Netherlands (1991)
- Prize-winner of the International Competition in Toulouse (Grand Prix, France, 1991)
Roles performed at the Novaya OperaAdalgisa in Bellini's NormaSofia in Verdi's I Lombardi alla prima crociata Marthe Schwertlein in Gounod's FaustMrs. Grose in Britten's The Turn of the Screw Schoolteacher, Witch in Michael Nyman and Henry Purcell's DIDODido and Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (in concert)
Wood-sprite in Dvorak's Rusalka (in concert)
La comtesse di Coigny in Giordano’s Andrea Chénier (in concert)
Mezzo-soprano parts in Verdi’s Requiem, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and concerts Vincenzo Bellini, Music Is My Soul
Parts in the productions: Tribute to Evgeny Kolobov, Maria Callas (Musical offering), Ten Sopranos (gala concert ), Romances by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Sergey Rachmaninov (concert), Johann Strauss, the Waltz King (gala concert), Rossini (musical divertissement), This is Opera! (dramatized performance), Opera&Jazz (New Year's Eve Show), Bravissimo! (opera mix), O Mozart! Mozart… (Requiem)Discography | Novaya Opera will tour in the UK on July 11–13, 2018… Learn more… |
