Yekaterina SergeevaMezzo sopranoMezzo-soprano • Prize-winner at the International Lisitsian Competition (Vladikavkaz, 2006) • Prize-winner at the VII International Zara Dolukhanova Amber Nightingale Competition (Kaliningrad, 2008) • Diploma-recipient at the International Rimsky-Korsakov Competition (prize for best performance of a contemporary work, St Petersburg, 2006) Yekaterina Sergeyeva was born in St Petersburg. She graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 2005. Soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers since 2004. Her repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes: Blanche (The Gambler) Olga (Eugene Onegin) Tsarevich Fyodor (Boris Godunov) Polina, Milovzor (The Queen of Spades) Laura (Iolanta) Youngster, Lel (The Snow Maiden) Linetta, Nicoletta (The Love for Three Oranges) Princess Marya (War and Peace) Storchenko’s Dark-Haired Sister, Peasant Woman (Shponka and His Aunt) Suor Dolcina (Suor Angelica) Third Lady (Die Zauberflцte) Siegrune (Die Walkьre) Maid (Elektra) Dryad (Ariadne auf Naxos) Nicklausse (Les contes d'Hoffmann) The Beautiful Dulcinйe (Don Quichotte) Girl (West Side Story in concert). At the Hermitage Theatre she has appeared as Mary Magdalene (The Messiah, Son of Man). In 2009 together with Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra she took in a recording of the opera Elektra. In 2010 as part of Monaco National Day celebrations, the Congress Centre of the Grimaldi Forum hosted the premiere of a production of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin featuring Yekaterina Sergeyeva. She also featured in a production of the opera Iolanta alongside Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczaіa. Together with the Mariinsky Opera Company, she has toured to Germany (Baden-Baden), Japan and the USA. In 2010 she took part in the Tiroler Festspiele.
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