Recipient of the State Prize of Russia. Awarded the Golden Mask (2005) for "Best female role in opera" (Isolde in Tristan und Isolde).
Graduated from the Leningrad State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of Professor I. Levando).
Repertoire includes: Yaroslavna (Prince Igor), Nun, Renata (The Fiery Angel), Katerina Ismailova (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Senta (Der Fliegende Hollander), Ortrud (Lohengrin), Brunnhilde (Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung), Kundry (Parsifal), Isolde (Tristan und Isolde) and Elektra (Elektra in concert). Has toured with the Mariinsky Theatre to Japan, the USA, France, Slovenia, Italy, Finland, Portugal and Turkey.