Zinaida Tsarenko

Mariinsky Theatre Guest Soloist

• Prize-winner at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow – St Petersburg, 2023; Grand Prix, 1^st prize and Gold Medal)
• Prize-winner at the 13^th Elena Obraztsova International Competition of Young Opera Singers (St Petersburg, 2021; 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the 11^th International Vocal Contest named after Zara Dolukhanova Amber Nightingale (Kaliningrad, 2018; 3^rd prize)
• Finalist at the 7^th Wilhelm Stenhammar International Music Competition (Norrköping, Sweden, 2018)

Zinaida Tsarenko was born in Khabarovsk. In 2020 she graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory (class of Olga Kondina).

In 2021 she became a fellow of the Atkins Young Artists Program at the Mariinsky Theatre. In 2016 Zinaida made her debut at the theatre, appearing in a concert by students of Olga Kondina and Vladimir Vaneyev; in 2022 she took part for the first time in a Mariinsky Theatre opera performance, singing the role of Olga in Eugene Onegin (chamber version).

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
The Princess (Dargomyzhsky’s Mermaid, concert performance)
Konchakovna (Prince Igor)
Olga (Eugene Onegin)
Marfa (Khovanshchina)
Joan of Arc (The Maid of Orleans)
Polina (The Queen of Spades)
Lyubasha (The Tsar’s Bride)
Princess Clarice (The Love for Three Oranges)
Enrichetta di Francia (I puritani)
Fenena (Nabucco)
Emilia (Verdi’s Otello)
Princess Eboli (Don Carlo)
Dalila (Samson et Dalila)
Mezzo-soprano parts in Berlioz’ Roméo et Juliette and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky

She has sung at premieres of new Mariinsky Theatre productions of Nabucco (2023) and I puritani (2024).
Information for March 2024