EVGENIA MURAVEVA

Russian soprano, born in St Petersburg, where she graduated from the N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory. She has won awards at many international competitions. Highlights include her debut at the Salzburg Festival as Katerina Ismailova (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Tatiana (Eugene Onegin, Komische Oper Berlin) and Leonora (Il trovatore, Tatar State Opera, Kazan). She participated in Vladimir Chernov’s Jubilee Gala at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow under the baton of Evgeny Bushkov and also performed as a soloist in Poulenc’s Gloria conducted by Vladimir Minin at the Grand Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory. Evgenia is a regular guest soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre, where she has performed leading roles in such productions as Le nozze di Figaro, Salome, The Queen of Spades, Götterdämmerung. Before joining the Mariinsky Theatre, she was a soloist at the St Petersburg Chamber Opera, where she performed such roles as Tosca, Mimì (La bohème), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Nedda (Pagliacci), Lisa (The Queen of Spades) and Kseniya (Boris Godunov).