Nadezhda Serdyuk

• Recipient of the Golden Sofit, St Petersburg’s most prestigious theatre prize (2016; for the role of Boyarina Morozova in a Mariinsky Theatre production of The Oprichnik)
• Prize-winner at the 1^st Elena Obraztsova International Competition of Young Opera Singers (St Petersburg, 1999; 2^nd prize)
• Semi-finalist at the 9^th BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition (1999)
• Prize-winner at the 3^rd Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition for Young Opera Singers (St Petersburg, 1998; 2^nd prize)
• Diploma recipient at the XI International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow, 1998)
• Prize-winner at the XVI International Glinka Competition of Vocalists (Ufa, 1995; 2^nd prize)

Nadezhda Serdyuk graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (class of Professor Galina Pisarenko, People’s Artist of Russia) in 1997.

During 1997–2000 she was a soloist at the Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow.

From 1998 to 2007 Nadezhda Serdyuk was a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers. Since 2007 she has been a soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Olga (Eugene Onegin)
Polina and Milovzor (The Queen of Spades)
Lyubov (Mazepa)
Boyarina Morozova (The Oprichnik)
Vlasyevna (The Maid of Pskov)
Spring Beauty (The Snow Maiden)
Lyubava (Sadko)
Lyubasha (The Tsar’s Bride)
Matchmaker-Crone Babarikha (The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Primorsky Stage)
Marina Mnishek (Boris Godunov)
Marfa (Khovanshchina, Primorsky Stage)
Susanna (Khovanshchina)
Mamelfa Timofeyevna (Dobrynya Nikitich, concert performance)
The Mother (Mavra)
Mlle Blanche (The Gambler)
Princess Clarice (The Love for Three Oranges)
Clara (Betrothal in a Monastery)
Hélène Bezukhova and Marya Dmitrievna Akhrosimova (War and Peace)
Varya (The Story of a Real Man, concert performance)
Rita Osyanina (Kirill Molchanov’s The Dawns Here Are Quiet, concert performance)
Varvara Vasilyevna (Not Love Alone)
The Snow Queen (The Story of Kai and Gerda)
Agrafena Alexandrovna (Grushenka) (Alexander Smelkov’s The Brothers Karamazov)
Empress Catherine II (Mikhail Kollontay’s The Captain’s Daughter, concert performance)
Kubarikha (David Krivitsky’s Doctor Zhivago, concert performance)
Idamante (Idomeneo, rè di Creta)
Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro)
Dorabella (Così fan tutte)
Adalgisa (Norma, concert performance)
Fenena (Nabucco)
Flora Bervoix (La traviata)
Amneris (Aida)
Azucena (Il trovatore)
Princess Eboli (Don Carlo)
Preziosilla (La forza del destino)
Lola (Cavalleria rusticana, concert performance)
Madelon (Andrea Chénier, concert performance)
Frugola (Il tabarro)
The Nursing Sister (Infirmary), the Monitress and the Mistress of the Novices (Suor Angelica)
Waltraute (Die Walküre)
Flosshilde (Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung)
The Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos)
Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier, concert performance)
The Witch (Hänsel und Gretel)
Giulietta (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)
Ježibaba (Dvořák’s Rusalka)
Mrs Grose (The Turn of the Screw)
Hermia (Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Jocasta (Stravinsky’s Œdipus Rex)
Alto roles in Pergolesi’s and Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Mozart’s Requiem and Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, mezzo-soprano roles in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Verdi’s Requiem (including a stage version directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca) and Stravinsky’s Les Noces

At the Mariinsky Theatre Nadezhda Serdyuk has taken part in the world premiere of David Krivitsky’s opera Doctor Zhivago (2019) and in the first St Petersburg performance of the opera Andrea Chénier (2022). She has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company to New York (Metropolitan Opera), London (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), Paris (Théâtre du Châtelet), Milan (La Scala), Washington (Kennedy Center), Tokyo, Madrid, Amsterdam and Baden-Baden, and has sung at the Mikkeli Music Festival (Finland).

In addition to participating in Mariinsky Theatre productions and concerts, Nadezhda Serdyuk also appeared as Ulrica (Un ballo in maschera), Rosina (Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia), Leonora (La favorita), Albine (Thaïs), Orfeo (Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice), Bacco (Giovanni Alberto Ristori’s Arianna), Anna Kennedy (Maria Stuarda), Pisana (I due Foscari), the First Maid (Elektra), Death (Le Rossignol), Joan of Arc (The Maid of Orleans), Nadezhda Nasonova (The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga) and the Mistress of the Inn (Boris Godunov), and performed the solo roles in Bach’s Magnificat, Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody, Scriabin’s First Symphony, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky and Songs of Our Days, Saint-Saëns’ Requiem and Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater.

Has taken part in a production of Prokofiev’s opera The Love for Three Oranges in Aix-en-Provence (2004), Luxembourg (2005) and Madrid (2006). In the 2008–09 season she performed the roles of Albine (Thaïs) and Polina (The Queen of Spades) at the Teatro Regio (Turin).

Has collaborated with many renowned contemporary conductors, among them Valery Gergiev, Gianandrea Noseda, Andris Nelsons, Yevgeny Kolobov, Tugan Sokhiev, Yuri Bashmet, Saulus Sondeckis, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Michael Tilson Thomas, Helmuth Rilling, Hans Graf, Jakub Hrůša, Daniele Rustioni, Paolo Carignani.

The singer’s discography includes recordings of the operas The Gambler (Mariinsky label), Boris Godunov, The Love for Three Oranges, Suor Angelica and Thaïs and Mozart’s Requiem.