Soprano
Ekaterina
Ferzba
Ekaterina Ferzba

Born in Ulyanovsk. Graduated from the Ulyanovsk College of Music n. a. G. I. Shadrina (class of V. Smirnitskaya), in 2009 — from the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow (class of Bela Rudenko), then obtained a post-graduate degree there.

In 2009 was accepted into the troupe of the Boris Pokrovsky Chamber Musical Theatre. Since 2018 has been a soloist of the Boris Pokrovsky Chamber Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre.

Awards

2nd award of the 23rd International Glinka Competition of Vocalists

2009, Moscow

1st award of the 1st international Competition of Vocalists in memory of Antonina Nezhdanova

2010, Odessa

2nd award of the International Competition of Opera Singers n. a. Giacomo Lauri-Volpi

2012, Italy

2nd award of the International Competition of Singers-Performers of Italian Opera “Competizione dell’ Opera”

2014, Austria

Gratitude from the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation “For a great contribution to the development of culture and many years of fruitful work” 

2016
Repertoire
2024
2023
2022
Repertoire

The Nightingale (Le Rossignol by I. Stravinsky)

Rosalina (Il Re by U. Giordano)

Linda (Linda di Chamounix)

Lidochka (Moscow, Cheryomushki)

Sophie Scholl (Weiße Rose (White Rose) by U. Zimmermann)

Monica / Lucy (The Medium. The Telephone by G. C. Menotti)

Fiorilla (Il turco in Italia)

Servilia (La clemenza di Tito by W. A. Mozart)

Cupid (Orfeo ed Euridice)

Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos)

Servilia (Servilia by N. Rimsky-Korsakov)

Sharp-Ears, the Vixen (The Cunning Little Vixen by L. Janacek)

Anne (The Rake's Progress)

Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare and Cleopatra)

Zerlina (Don Giovanni, ossia Il dissoluto punito)

The Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte)

Lucietta (I Quatro Rusteghi by E. Wolf-Ferrari)

Marzelline (Leonora)

Flaminia (Il mondo della luna)

Young Filly (Kholstomer by V. Kobekin)

Inez (Die drei Pintos by C. M. von Weber — G. Mahler)

Madame Herz (Der Schauspieldirektor)

First Angel (The Rostov Mystery by D. Rostovsky)

Pearl, Suburbia’s Wife, Stewardess (Titius Flawless by A. Manotskov)

Lyudmila (The Petty Demon by A. Zhurbin)

Swallow (Capriccio in Black and White by V. Kobekin)

Illia (Idomeneo)

Lauretta (Contract for Pulcinella with the Orchestra, or the Strangers Are Allowed by G. Pergolesi, I. Stravinsky)  

Also in her repertoire

Violetta (La Traviata)

Gilda (Rigoletto)

Marfa (The Tsar’s Bride)

Tsaritsa of Shemakha (The Golden Cockerel)

Performs in productions at the Tatar State Opera and Ballet Theatre n. a. Musa Jalil and at the Chaliapin International Opera Festival in Kazan. Participated in projects by the Irina Arkhipova Foundation and the Foundation n. a. I. S. Kozlovsky. 

General partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — insurance company «Ingosstrakh»
Privileged sponsor of the Bolshoi Theatre — Tinkoff Bank
Privileged partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — GUM