Varvara Solovyova

Prize-winner at the International Pavel Lisitsian Competition (Vladikavkaz, 2006).

Born in Leningrad. Graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 2005 (class of I.P. Levando and L.A. Tedtoyeva).
Soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers since 2005.
Varvara Solovyova has been a Mariinsky Theatre soloist since 2014.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Princess (Rusalka)
Old Woman, Mistress of the Inn (Boris Godunov)
Yaroslavna’s Nanny (Prince Igor)
Spring Beauty (The Snow Maiden)
Stepanida (The Maid of Pskov)
Sister-in-Law (May Night)
Queen, Woman with a Purple Nose (Christmas Eve)
Tkachikha (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Lubava (Sadko)
Khivrya (Sorochintsy Fair)
Olga, Filippyevna (Eugene Onegin)
Laura (Iolanta)
Sonyetka (Katerina Ismailova)
Smeraldina (The Love for Three Oranges)
Frosia (Semyon Kotko)
Sonya (War and Peace)
Sofia Ivanovna (Dead Souls)
Charlotte (Lolita)
The Girl from the Advert (Lolita in concert)
Second Speaking Woman (The Lefthander)
Agrafena Alexandrovna (The Brothers Karamazov)
Boyarina Morozova (Boyarina Morozova)
Modestina (Il viaggio a Reims)
Enrichetta di Francia (I puritani, chamber version)
Alisa (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro)
Anina, Flora Bervois (La traviata)
Meg Page (Falstaff)
La Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi)
Servant (Elektra)
Floßhilde (Das Rheingold)
Schwertleite, Siegrune (Die Walküre)
Lucia (Cavalleria rusticana)
Kristina (The Makropulos Affair)
Dame de la cour (Les Huguenots)
Hecube (Les Troyens)
Bianca (The Rape of Lucretia in concert)
Third servant (Die Frau ohne Schatten)
Ježibaba (Baba Yaga) (Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák)

Repertoire also includes: Lyubasha (The Tsar’s Bride), Polina (The Queen of Spades) and Suzuki (Madama Butterfly).