Tatiana Starkova

Soprano

• Prize-winner at the 1^st International Competition Grand Stage Opera Award (Moscow, 2024; 2^nd prize and Verdi Prize)
• Prize-winner at the 10^th Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition for Young Opera Singers (Tikhvin, 2016; 1^st prize in the opera category)
• Prize-winner at the 9^th Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition for Young Opera Singers (Tikhvin, 2015; 1^st prize in the chamber category)
• Prize-winner at the 42^nd All-Russian Review Competition of Graduate Vocalists of Higher Institutes of Music (St Petersburg, 2014; 2^nd prize)

Tatiana Starkova was born in Novosibirsk. In 2009 she graduated from the Perm College of Music, having specialised in piano and vocals. Trained at the Department of Solo Singing at the Perm State Academy of Art and Culture (class of Olga Liyka, a soloist of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre).

Since 2012 Tatiana Starkova has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers. She made her Mariinsky Theatre debut in 2015, appearing in a concert performance of the opera Into the Storm.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Maddalena (Maddalena)
Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte)
The Princess (Dvořák’s Rusalka)

In concert performances:
Yadviga Zapolska (Pan Voyevoda)
Jacqueline (Colas Breugnon)
First Maiden (Into the Storm)
Marya (Molchanov’s The Dawns Here Are Quiet)
Anna Bolena (Anna Bolena)
Gemma (Gemma di Vergy)
Maddalena (Linda di Chamounix)
Princess Fedora Romazov (Fedora)

In productions at the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania Branch:
Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana)
Aida (Aida)
Manon Lescaut (Puccini’s Manon Lescaut)

Together with soloists of the Academy of Young Opera Singers she appears in subscription series concert programmes as well as in productions for children (The Little Sweep, Scenes from the Life of Nikolenka Irtenev, The Christmas Tree and The Treasures of the Magic Well).