Yekaterina Solovyova

• Prize-winner at the II International Rimsky-Korsakov Competition (Hope prize, St Petersburg, 1996)
• Prize-winner at the International Sergei Diaghilev Competition (Perm, 1997)
• Prize-winner at the International Moniuszko Vocal Competition (Poland, 2001)

Born in Leningrad. Graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 1999.
Soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers since 1998.
Joined the Mariinsky Opera Company in 2010.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky theatre:
Donna Anna (The Stone Guest in concert)
Tatiana (Eugene Onegin)
Maria (Mazepa)
Iolanta (Iolanta)
Kupava (The Snow Maiden)
Tsaritsa Militrisa (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Maddalena (Maddalena)
Polina (The Gambler)
Katerina Ismailova (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Lyubka (Semyon Kotko)
Anna Grigorievna (Dead Souls)
Musetta, Mimì (La bohème)
Suor Angelica (Suor Angelica)
Micaëla (Carmen)
Giulietta (Les contes d´Hoffmann)
Countess Almaviva, Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro)
Zerlina (Don Giovanni)
Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana)
Governess (the Turn of the Screw)
Karolka (Jenůfa)
The Mermaid (Rusalka, by Dvořák)

Has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company to Finland, France and Israel and has given solo concerts in Germany, Great Britain, the USA, the Lebanon and Japan. Sang as Tatiana (Eugene Onegin) at Warsaw´s Teatr Wielki in 2002. Guest soloist at the Teatr Wielki where she has performed as Mimì (La bohème).

In the 2002-2003 season she performed as Mimì in Baz Luhrmann´s production of La bohème (Broadway, New York). In 2003 she also performed as Maria in Bernstein´s West Side Story at La Scala.