• Prize-winner at the 51st Concours international de chant de Toulouse (2016; 3rd prize)
• Prize-winner at the 4th Open All-Russian Nadezhda Obukhova Young Vocalists’ Competition (Lipetsk, 2016; 1st prize)
• Prize-winner at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow – St Petersburg, 2015; 4th prize)
• Prize-winner at the 1st International Young Opera Singers’ Competition Opera Without Borders (Krasnodar, 2014; Grand Prix)
• Prize-winner at the 3rd Maxim Mikhailov International Competition for Young Opera Singers (Kaluga, 2013; 1st prize)
• Prize-winner at the 3rd Pavel Lisitsian International Vocal Competition (Vladikavkaz, 2013; 2nd prize)
Antonina Vesenina was born in Voronezh. Graduated from the Voronezh State Academy of Arts where she studied with Natalia Savitskaya. Has taken part in masterclasses given by Elena Obraztsova, Larisa Gergieva, Grayr Khanedanian and Gegham Grigorian.
Worked as a soloist with the St Petersburg Chamber Opera where she performed the roles of Gilda in Rigoletto, Sister Genovieffa in Suor Angelica and Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia.
From 2011 to 2022 Antonina Vesenina was a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers. She made her Mariinsky Theatre debut in 2014, appearing as the Queen of the Night. Since 2022 the artist has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Opera Company.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Antonida (A Life for the Tsar)
Snow Maiden (The Snow Maiden)
Swan-Princess (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Queen of Shemakha (The Golden Cockerel)
The Princess Unearthly-Beauty (Kashchey the Immortal)
Nightingale (Le Rossignol)
Ilia (Idomeneo, rè di Creta)
Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail)
Donna Anna (Don Giovanni)
Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte)
Mademoiselle Silberklang (Der Schauspieldirektor)
Rosina (Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia)
La Contessa di Folleville (Il viaggio a Reims)
Norina (Don Pasquale)
Gilda (Rigoletto)
Adele (Die Fledermaus)
Teresa (Benvenuto Cellini)
Marguerite de Valois (Les Huguenots)
Olympia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)
Lakmé (Lakmé)
In concert performances:
Esmeralda (Dargomyzhsky’s Esmeralda)
Tonya Gromeko (Krivitsky’s Doctor Zhivago)
Maria Ivanovna Mironova (Kollontay’s The Captain’s Daughter)
Elisa (Il rè pastore)
Clorinda (La Cenerentola)
Giulia (La scala di seta)
Beatrice di Tenda (Beatrice di Tenda)
Linda (Linda di Chamounix)
Countess Olga Sukarev (Fedora)
La Fée (Cendrillon)
Her repertoire also includes the roles of Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Amina (La sonnambula), Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Oscar (Un ballo in maschera), Marie (La Fille du régiment), Leïla (Les Pêcheurs de perles), Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos), Fiakermilli (Arabella) and Marfa (The Tsar’s Bride).
Together with other soloists of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers she has toured to Great Britain, Italy, Austria, France and Spain. In 2019 the artist has taken part in the world premiere of David Krivitsky’s opera Doctor Zhivago, which took place at the Mariinsky Theatre.
Antonina Vesenina has performed at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia (in 2018 she portrayed Rosina in the premiere of a new production of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia), the Staatsoper Hamburg, the Semperoper Dresden, the Komische Oper Berlin and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf; in 2016 she appeared as the Queen of Shemakha in the premiere of a new production of The Golden Cockerel).
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