• Prize-winner at the Dvořgák International Young Opera Singers' Competition (Czech Republic)
Olga Legkova was born in Vitebsky (Belarus). Graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 1999 (class of Professor Gorokhovskaya). Joined the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers in 1999, and has been with the Mariinsky Opera Company since 2008.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Fyodor (Boris Godunov)
Khivrya and Parasya (The Affair at Sorochintsy)
Perfilevna (The Maid of Pskov)
Laura (Iolanta)
Woman with a violet-coloured nose (Christmas Eve)
Honourable Lady (The Gambler)
Rosina (Betrothal in a Monastery)
Adjutant to Marshal Murat (War and Peace)
Sofia Ivanovna (Dead souls)
January (A Christmas Tale)
Delia, Maddalena, Modestina (Il viaggio a Reims)
Berta (Il barbiere di Siviglia, concert performance)
Alisa (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Clotilde (Norma, concert performance)
Amelia (Simon Boccanegra, concert performance)
Lucia (Cavalleria rusticana, concert performance)
Wowkle (La fanciulla del West)
Third Lady (Die Zauberflöte)
Schwertleite (Die Walküre)
Page (Parsifal)
Dryad (Ariadne auf Naxos)
Servant (Elektra)
Worker (Jenůfa)
Moreover, her repertoire also includes the roles of Lyubava (Sadko), Lyubasha (The Tsar's Bride), Olga (Eugene Onegin) and Polina (The Queen of Spades).
Olga Legkova has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company to Sweden.