Anzhelika Minasova

Soprano

• Prize-winner at the 1^st Sobinov International Vocal Competition (Yaroslavl, 2018; 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the 10^th Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition for Young Opera Singers (Tikhvin – St Petersburg, 2016; 1^st prize in chamber category, 3^rd prize in opera category) 
• Diploma recipient at the 5^th Galina Vishnevskaya International Opera Singers Competition (Moscow, 2014) 
• Diploma recipient at the 4^th International B.T. Shtokolov Vocal Competition (St Petersburg, 2014)

Anzhelika Minasova was born in Krasnovodsk (Turkmenistan). She graduated from the Schnittke Moscow State Institute of Music in 2014 (class of Natalia Pustovaya). Perfected her skills at masterclasses of Sergio Bertocchi and Fiorenza Cossotto (New Opera Ischia, 2008 and 2010).
In 2014 the artist joined the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre. There she sung Tatiana (Eugene Onegin), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Antonia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Mimì (La bohème), Micaёla (Carmen), Fata Morgana (The Love for Three Oranges), the High Priestess (Aida), Agnès Sorel (The Maid of Orleans) and Oksana (Cherevichki) as well as the title roles in Madama Butterfly and Cendrillon.

From 2016 to 2022 Anzhelika Minasova was a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers. She made her Mariinsky Theatre debut in 2017, appearing in Cendrillon.
Joined the Mariinsky Opera Company in 2022.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Tatiana (Eugene Onegin)
Agnès Sorel (The Maid of Orleans)
Fata Morgana (The Love for Three Oranges)
Gerda (The Story of Kai and Gerda)
Elettra (Idomeneo, re di Creta)
Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni)
Nedda (Pagliacci)
Mimì (La bohème)
Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)
Giorgetta (Il tabarro, chamber version)
Senta (Der fliegende Holländer)
Sieglinde (Die Walküre)
Gutrune (Götterdämmerung)
Antonia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)
Lucette (Cendrillon) (Cendrillon, concert performance)
Octavie (Massenet’s Cléopâtre, concert performance)
Judith (Bluebeard’s Castle)

Has sung in the premiere of a new Mariinsky Theatre production of The Love for Three Oranges (2022, 1991 production revival)and in the Mariinsky Theatre premiere of Bluebeard’s Castle (2023).

Has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company to Italy, France and Great Britain. Regular participant in chamber concert programmes of the Moscow Easter Festival.
In 2017 Anzhelika Minasova sang the title role in Iolanta at the Rudolfinum hall in Prague. In 2019 she made her debut at the Opéra de Rouen Normandie, performing the part of Tatiana in Eugene Onegin.