Olesya Petrova was
born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She graduated from the St. Petersburg State
Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 2008, class of Professor Irina Bogacheva.
Olesya Petrova has toured in Europe, the USA, South America, Korea,
China and Japan and the 11/12 season marks her international breakthrough as Konschakowna
in Borodin's Prince Igor at Zürich Opera House. That season she also sang Ulrica/Ballo
in Maschera at Greek National Opera in Athens.
Future engagements in 2013 include as well covering Maddalena/Rigoletto at The MET
in New York, Ulrica/Ballo in Maschera at Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Suzuki/Butterfly
at Greek National Opera in Athens, Mrs. Sedley/Peter Grimes at Hamburg
State Opera and Fenena/Nabucco at Opéra de Montreal. Petrova will also
take part in an opera gala concert at Teatro Filarmonico di Verona and sing Requiem
di Verdi in Sydney in 2013.
Olesya Petrova has
been a soloist with the St.Petersburg Conservatory Opera Theatre since 2007.
Here her repertoire includes Marfa (Khovanshchina), Konchakovna
(Prince Igor), Lel (The Snow Maiden), Lyubasha (The Tsar's Bride) on Perm Opera and Novosibirsk Opera, Amneris
(Aida) in Bankok, Carmen (Carmen), Olga (Eugene Onegin),Polina,
Countess (The Queen of Spades), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Ioanna
(The Maid of Orleans) and Ulrica (Un ballo in maschera).
She is a very sought after concert singer with many Russian Orchestra's
and Chamber Ensembles and her concert repertoire includes cantatas and
oratorio works by Bach, Pergolesi, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, Berlioz, Wagner,
Mahler and Prokofiev with conductors such as Valery
Gergiev, Leo Kremer, Fabio Mastrangelo and Vladimir Fedoseev.
She is a prize winner at the XI International Tchaikovsky Competition
(Moscow, 2007, 2nd prize) and at the International Competition of Galina
Vishnevskaya (Moscow, 2006, 2rd prize). In 2011 she reached the final in Cardiff
Singer of the World.
