Yekaterina Latysheva

Soprano

• Diploma-recipient at the II International Young Opera Singers’ Competition Opera without Borders (Krasnodar, 2015)
• Prize-winner at the Russian Performing Festival and Competition (Astrakhan, 2006, 3^rd prize)
• Prize-winner at the All-Russian Dmitry Kabalevsky Young Musicians’ Competition (Samara, 2006, 2^nd prize)

Born in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast. In 2008 she graduated with distinction from the Volgograd Conservatory named after P.A. Serebryakov. Trained in the class of Natalia Semyonova, Honoured Artist of Russia.
Since 2008 she has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers. Has taken part in master-classes given by internationally acclaimed teachers and coaches including Grayr Khanedanian, Larisa Gergieva, Elena Obraztsova

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Pannochka-the-Mermaid (May Night)
Tatiana (Eugene Onegin)
Angel (The Maid of Orleans)
A Governess (Prokofiev’s The Giant)
Varya (The Idiot)
Natasha, Anuta (Not Love Alone)
The Queen (Alexei Pozin’s Soldier’s Tales)
Stella (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)
the Sleep Fairy, the Dew Fairy (Hänsel und Gretel)
Third Wood Nymph (Rusalka)
The Mayor’s Wife (Jenůfa)
Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly)
Tisbe (La Cenerentola)
Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro)
First Lady (Die Zauberflöte)
Wellgunde (Das Rheingold)
Role of Solveig in the theatrical concert Peer Gynt based on Grieg’s music

In concerts: Mariya Oskolska (Pan Voyevoda), The Duchess of Krakenthorp (La Fille du régiment), Rozenn (Le Roi d'Ys), Lisa Britschkina (The Dawns Here Are Quiet), Lara Antipova (David Krivitsky’s Doctor Zhivago), Adele (Il pirata), Inès (La favorita), Magda (La rondine), Masha (Dubrovsky), Donna Clara (The Dwarf).

At the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania Branch:
Mother of Orphans (Khristof Pliev’s Kosta)
Alexandra, Alexander Nevsky’s wife (Grayr Khanedanian’s Alexander Nevsky)
Leonora (Il trovatore)
Nedda (Pagliacci)
Micaёla (Carmen)

In the 2016/2017 season, she sang the main part – Nastasya in the premiere of The Enchantress staged by David Pountney at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples.