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Soloists

Olga Guryakova,

guest soloist, soprano. Graduated from the Moscow State Conservatoire in 1995 (class of professor Irina Maslennikova) and completed the post-graduate course of the Moscow Conservatoire in 1997. Since 1994 she has been a soloist of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow academic Music Theater, where she performed Thais (Massenet' Thais), Marguerite (Gounod's Faust), Gorislava (Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila), Mimi (Puccini's La Boheme), Cio-Cio-san (Puccini's Madama Butterfly), Liza (Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades), Leonora (Verdi's La Forza del Destino), Kostelnička Buryjovka (Janáček's Jenůfa) to name a few.

She took part in the international tours of the Stanislavsky Theatre in South Korea (1997), France (1999) and the USA (2002). She gave concerts in Austria, Italy, the USA and Germany. She appeared at the Ludwigsburg Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, both in Germany. Participated in the Festival in Aix-en-Provence (2002) and Salzburg Festival (2005).

Since 1996 she has participated in the productions of the Mariinsky Theater and the international tours of the Mariinsky Opera. Took part in the performances of the Bolshoi Theater, Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan Opera, National Opera de Paris, Grand Opera de Paris, Opera National de Lyon, Wiener Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Covent Garden, Grand Theatre de Geneve, Opera de Monte-Carlo, Theatre de la Monnaie, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the San Francisco Opera, the Houston Grand Opera to name a few.

In these productions she performed the parts of Maria (Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa, Iolanta (Tchaikovsky's Iolanta), Parasha in Stravinsky's Mavra, Polina in Prokofiev's The Gambler, Natasha in Prokofiev's War and Peace, Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore, Elisabetta in Verdi's Don Carlo, Nedda in Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci to name a few.

 

Awards and Honours

  • Honoured Artist of Russia (2005)
  • prize-winner of the Golden Spotlight Saint-Petersburg Theater Award
  • prize-winner of the Golden Mask National Theatre Award (for the part of Cio-Cio-san in Madama Butterfly, 2002)
  • prize-winner of the Casta Diva Russian Opera Award (for the part of Mimi in La Boheme, 1997)
  • prize-winner of the Golden Mask National Theatre Award (for the part of Mimi in La Boheme, 1997)
  • prize-winner of the Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition in Saint-Petersburg (1996)
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