Valeria Pfister,

mezzo-soprano. Valeria Pfister graduated from the Shnitke State University of Music in Moscow (Prof. Shadrina's class) in 2010. She worked with the Moscow State Chapel under Vadim Sudakov in 2002. She collaborated with the Pokrovsky State Academic Chamber Music Theatre of Moscow. Valeria Pfister joined the Novaya Opera in 2003 as a member of the chorus; in 2007 she became a soloist. The singer performs mezzo-soprano parts and participates in concert programmes.

Awards and Honours

  • Prize-winner at the Bella Voce International Competition of Young Vocalists (1st prize, 2006)
  • Moscow City Literature and Arts Prize in the Musical Art Nomination for the part of Liese in Weinberg's The Passenger (2018)

Roles performed at the Novaya Opera

Konchakovna in Borodin's Prince Igor
Lel in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden
Lyubasha in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride
Naina, Ratmir in Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila
Olga in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
Pauline, Governess in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades
Uknown Woman (Letter from an Uknown Woman) in Voice of a Woman (opera novellas)
Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma
Lola in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana
Page in Wagner's Lohengrin
Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro
Female Cat, Squirrel in Ravel's L’enfant et les sortilèges
Gertrud in Engelbert Humperdinck's The Gingerbread House, or Hänsel und Gretel
Liese in Weinberg's The Passenger
Madam, Sorceress in Michael Nyman and Henry Purcell's DIDO
Maddalena in Prokofiev's Maddalena
Miss Jessel in Britten's The Turn of the Screw
Siébel in Gounod's Faust
Stéphano in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette
The Page of Herodias in Strauss' Salome
Pig in Valdgardt's The Cat's House
Perfiryevna in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Maid of Pskov in concert
Alto in Mozart's Requiem
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), Bravissimo! (opera mix), O Mozart! Mozart… (Requiem)

Discography

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