Irina GordeiSopranoPrize-winner at the International Viñas Competition (Barcelona, Spain, 1993). Born in Belarus. Graduated from the Belarus Academy of Music in 1991 and was invited to join the Moscow Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre and subsequently the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre. Her repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes: Her repertoire also includes the roles of Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana), Nedda (I pagliacci) and the soprano role in Verdi’s Requiem. In 1995 she made her debut at the Teatro Comunale (Florence) as Amelia in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera. In 1996 she performed the same role at the Wiener Staatsoper. She made her Washington Opera debut in 2002 as Lady Macbeth (Macbeth). She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the same role in 2003, also performing in Graz as Liza (The Queen of Spades) and in Helsinki as Elisabeth de Valois (Don Carlo). In 2004, she made her debut at the Ljubljana Opera House (Slovenia) as Aida and at Warsaw’s Opera Narodowa as Tosca. In 2005 she performed the role of Turandot in Puccini’s eponymous opera at the opera houses of Warsaw, Paris, Munich, Gelsenkirchen and London. The same year she sang as Aida (Aida) and Abigaille (Nabucco) at the Teatr Wielki and as Lisa (The Queen of Spades) in Baden-Baden. She has taken part in festivals in Mikkeli (Finland), Rotterdam (Netherlands), Tel Aviv (Israel) and Solothurn (Switzerland). She has worked with such renowned conductors as Valery Gergiev, Plácido Domingo, Michel Plasson, Semyon Bychkov, Janos Acs, Arthur Fagen and Jacek Kasprzyk, stage directors including Andrei Konchalovsky, Charles Roubaud, Zhang Yimou and such singers as Giuseppe Giacomini, Renato Bruson, Nicola Martinucci and Dennis O’Neill. © www.mariinsky.ru |
