Olga Yakovleva

Mezzo soprano

• Prize-winner at the Pavel Lisitsian Competition (Vladikavkaz, 2006, 2^nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the Bella voce international students’ competition (Moscow, 2005)

Born in St Petersburg. In 2007 she graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of senior lecturer L.N. Fedotova). At the Conservatoire’s Opera Studio she performed roles including Dido (Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas), Dorabella (Mozart’s Cosн fan tutte), Cherubino (Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro), Lyubasha (Rimsky-Korsakov’s the Tsar’s Bride) and Dolly (Vladislav Uspensky’s musical Anna Karenina).
Since 2005 she has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Fata Morgana (The Love for Three Oranges)
Matryosha the Gypsy (War and Peace)
Second Witness (The Lawsuit)
La Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi)
Miss Jessel (The Turn of the Screw)
Judith (Duke Bluebeard's Castle)

Repertoire also includes: Lyubasha (The Tsar’s Bride), Lyubava (Sadko), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Polina (The Queen of Spades), Eboli (Don Carlo), Amneris (Aida), Fenena (Nabucco), Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Siegrune (Die Walkьre), Verdi’s Requiem and Mozart’s Requiem.

She has toured to the USA and Hong Kong, and taken part in concerts by the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers in Russia and abroad.