| Olga Ionova, soprano. Olga Ionova, soprano, studied choral conducting and singing at the Alfred Schnitke Moscow Music College (graduated in 1992). In 1997, she graduated from the Choral Conducting Department (Professor Lyudmila Ermakova's class) of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, and in 2000, from the Opera Singing Department of the Conservatory (Professor Klara Kadinskaya's class). She continued her education attending workshops of Margret Honih and Alexander Oliver in Europe (Holland) and Bernd Weikle (Germany).
Since 2001, Olga Ionova has been a soloist of the Novaya Opera Theatre
In 2005, she made her first appearance at the Bolshoi Theatre, performing as Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and, later, as Ksenia (Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov). Since 1995, she has been giving concerts in the USA, Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary and France. The singer collaborates with a number of Russian opera houses. Olga Ionova has taken part in numerous musicfestivals including the Art-November International Art Festival (Moscow), the Moscow Easter Festival, Oldenburger Promenade (Germany), Le Tuque International Music Festival (France), Blossoming Wild Rosemary (Chita), the Classical Music Festival directed by Sergey Stadler (Perm), the Music Festival dedicated to the 600th anniversary of Aristotle Fioravanti’s birth. Her repertory comprises the following parts: Serpina (Pergolesi’s La ServaPadrona), Lavinia (Sarti's Aeneas in Latium), Antonida (Glinka’s A Life for the Tsar), Gilda (Verdi’s Rigoletto) and many others. Her concert repertory includes Beethoven’s Symphony 9, Bach’s BWV 126, BWV 140, Mass in B minor, Magnificat (BWV 243), Mozart’s Messe C-moll, Haydn's Nelson Mass and Theresienmesse. The singer collaborates with leading Moscow orchestras, such as the MusicaViva Moscow Chamber Orchestra (conductor Alexander Rudin), the Russian State Academic Symphony Choir directed by Valery Polyansky, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Radio Orfey Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sergey Kondrashyov. Also she performed Strauss’ works with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra. Olga has recorded a number of CDs, including Russian church music (1996), music by Rachmaninoff (1997) and by Valery Kikta (2003), CD Rendering by Igor Bril and Yuri Golubev. Awards and Honours- Prize-winner of an international competition of singers in Italy (1997)
Roles performed at the Novaya OperaThais in Massenet's Thais Schoolteacher, Witch in Michael Nyman and Henry Purcell's DIDOMaria in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda
Soprano parts in Verdi's Requiem and Orff's Carmina Burana
Parts in the productions: Maria Callas (Musical offering), Ten Sopranos (gala concert ), Romances by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Sergey Rachmaninov (concert), Johann Strauss, the Waltz King (gala concert), Waltzes, Tangos & Foxtrots (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 | |
