Mariinsky Theatre Guest Soloist
• Prize-winner at the 2nd Paris Opera Competition (2012; 1st prize and Audience Award)
• Finalist at the 15th BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition (2011)
• Prize-winner at the XIII International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow, 2007; 2nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the 1st Galina Vishnevskaya International Opera Artists Competition (Moscow, 2006; 2nd prize)
Olesya Petrova was born in Leningrad. In 2008 she graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory (class of Irina Bogacheva).
In 2007–2016 the singer was a soloist with the Opera and Ballet Theatre of the St Petersburg Conservatory. Since 2016 she has been a soloist at the Mikhailovsky Theatre, where she performs the roles of Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera, Amneris in Aida, Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana and the Countess in The Queen of Spades.
In 2014 Olesya Petrova made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in a production of Andrea Chénier (Madelon); she has also appeared in Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Voice of Antonia’s Mother), Luisa Miller (Federica), Aida (Amneris), Rigoletto (Maddalena), Prince Igor (Konchakovna) and Khovanshchina (Marfa).
In 2018 the singer made her debut at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, performing the role of Polina in the premiere of a new production of The Queen of Spades (conducted by Tugan Sokhiev and directed by Rimas Tuminas).
As a guest soloist she has appeared with the Greek National Opera (Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera and Suzuki in Madama Butterfly), the Opernhaus Zürich (Konchakovna in Prince Igor), the Latvian National Opera (Azucena in Il trovatore and Amneris), the Hamburger Staatsoper (Mrs Sedley in Peter Grimes and Federica in Luisa Miller), Madrid’s Teatro Real (Amelfa the Housekeeper in The Golden Cockerel), Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu (Emilia in Verdi’s Otello), the Opéra de Montréal (Fenena in Nabucco and Amneris), the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre (Joan of Arc in The Maid of Orleans and the Duenna in Betrothal in a Monastery) as well as at the Arena di Verona Festival.
In 2016 Olesya Petrova performed the role of Marguerite in La Damnation de Faust in an anniversary concert by the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Vassily Sinaisky). In 2023 she sang the mezzo-soprano part in Osip Kozlovsky’s Requiem in Singapore.
The artist made her Mariinsky Theatre debut in 2013, appearing in Irina Bogacheva’s jubilee. In 2018 at the theatre Olesya Petrova sang Marguerite in a concert performance of La Damnation de Faust, in which the Spanish choir Orfeón Pamplonés took part.
Her concert repertoire includes the mezzo-soprano roles in cantatas by Bach, Handel’s oratorio Messiah, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Mozart’s Requiem and Krönungsmesse, Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Verdi’s Requiem, Mahler’s Second, Third and Eighth symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde and Kindertotenlieder, Prokofiev’s cantata Alexander Nevsky and Penderecki’s Morning Prayer in addition to song cycles by Wagner, Berlioz, Musorgsky and Schnittke.
Information for January 2025
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