Olga Peretyatko
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Born |
Leningrad | May 21, 1980
Occupation | Opera singer (soprano) |
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Olga Peretyatko (Russian: Ольга Перетятько; born 21 May 1980 in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg) is a Russian operatic soprano. As a child Peretyatko sang in the children's choir of the Mariinsky Theatre. As a student of the Hamburg Opera Studio she received the second prize at Operalia Competition (2007), an event sponsored by tenor Plácido Domingo.
Career
Her repertory includes operas from Handel and Mozart to Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. A participant at the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro, she has regularly sung at the Rossini Opera Festival: Corinna and Contessa di Folleville (Il viaggio a Reims, 2006), Desdemona (Otello, 2007),[1] Giulia (La scala di seta, 2009),[2] Aldamira (Sigismondo, 2010), and the title role in Matilde di Shabran (2012). In 2013 she sang during the Mozartwoche in Salzburg. In 2014, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Elvira in Bellini's I puritani.[3]
Olga Peretyatko gained international attention as Stravinsky's Rossignol in the acclaimed Robert Lepage production that premiered in Toronto in 2009, then presented at the Aix Festival in 2010 and subsequently at the Opéra Lyon, the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam. She achieved great success in her role debuts as Adina in L'elisir d'amore in Lille, as Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro Massimo Palermo, as Gilda in Rigoletto at La Fenice in Venice, as well as at the Festival Avenches. In 2013 and 2014, Olga Peretyatko's commitments included the Mozart Weeks, Salzburg Festival (Giunia in Lucio Silla), debuts at the Vienna State Opera, Zurich Opera House (Rigoletto), the Berlin State Opera and La Scala in Milan (Marfa in Die Zarenbraut), and performances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Adina in L'elisir d'amore).
In 2015, Olga Peretyatko debuted to rave reviews as Violetta in La Traviata at the Opéra Lausanne, followed by a new production of the same title at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden. She returns to the Vienna State Opera for I Puritani, to La Scala in Milan for Rossini's Otello, to the Metropolitan Opera in New York for Rigoletto, along with debuts at the Teatro Regio in Turin in I Puritani, at the Tivoli in Copenhagen and at La Monnaie in Bruxelles in L'Elisir d'amore and at the Teatro Real in Madrid in Rigoletto. Subsequent debuts are planned to take place at Opéra Bastille in Paris, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, New National Theatre in Tokyo, San Francisco Opera, and Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
Olga Peretyatko has won several awards in international competitions such as Operalia, the opera competition organized by Plácido Domingo where she won second prize, and she also recently received in Italy the important recognition of the Premio Franco Abbiati della Critica Musicale Italiana.
Olga Peretyatko also performed for more than 600,000 people at Le Concert de Paris, on 14 July 2014 for the Bastille Day celebrations, by the Eiffel Tower.
Olga Peretyatko is represented by Impresario, Irene Gall Management and Primavera Consulting
Personal
Olga Peretyatko is married to the conductor Michele Mariotti, who led the Matilde di Shabran performances in Pesaro.
Discography
- 2006: Semiramide, Meyerbeer. Label: Naxos (Naxos Series: Opera Classics), catalogue no: 8.660205-06
- 2008: La donna del lago, Rossini. Label: Naxos, catalogue no: 8.660235-36
- 2011: La bellezza del canto, first solo recital CD, Sony
- 2014: Arabesque, NDR Sinfonieorchester, Enrique Mazzola conducting, Sony
Notes
- ↑ A role she also sang in Lausanne (2010). See Scott, Bruce. "An Overshadowed Original: Rossini's Otello". NPR World of Opera. May 7, 2010
- ↑ Olga Peteryatko: Biography
- ↑ "Allowing a Puritan to Marry for Love – I puritani Revisits the English Civil War by Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times, 18 April 2014