Prize-winner at the Elena Obraztsova International Young Opera Singers’ Competition (1st prize, 2007)
Prize-winner at the Montserrat Caballe International Opera Singers’ Competition in Zaragoza (1st prize, 2008)
Prize-winner at the Three Centuries of Classical Romance All-Russian Competition of Chamber Vocal Duets (2004)
Prize-winner at the S Petersburg All-Russian Opera Singers’ Competition (2007)
Yekaterina Goncharova is a graduate of the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire. Since 2009 she has been a soloist with the St Petersburg Conservatoire Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 2008 she appeared in a concert performance of the opera Carmen under the baton of Mariss Jansons as Micaлla. In October 2010 she made her debut at the Philharmonie in Cologne in a concert with Montserrat Caballe. In November 2010 she appeared as Tatiana in a production of the opera Eugene Onegin at the Opera de Monte-Carlo. In the 2011–2012 season she made her Mariinsky Theatre debuts as Tatiana (Eugene Onegin) and Micaлla (Carmen). Has toured throughout Russia and to Spain.
Repertoire includes:
Mimм (La boheme)
Tatiana (Eugene Onegin)
Iolanta (Iolanta)
Maria (Mazepa)
Genoveva (Genoveva)
Micaлla (Carmen)
Agnиs (The Maid of Orleans)
Violetta (La traviata)
Marfa (The Tsar’s Bride)
Antonia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)
Natasha (War and Peace)