Vesenina
Antonina Vesenina was born in Voronezh. She graduated from the Voronezh State Academy of Arts (class of Natalia Savitskaya). In 2010-11 she was a soloist with the St Petersburg Chamber Opera. Since 2011, Ms. Vesenina has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers.
Antonina Vesenina has performed at the Staatsoper Hamburg, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Komische Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Theatre du Capitole Toulouse.
She has collaborated with such conductors as Valery Gergiev, David Syrus, Marc Piollet, Axel Kober, Gabriel Feltz, Pavel Smelkov, Christian Knapp, Mikhail Senkevich, Sergei Stadler.
1st prize at the III International Maxim Mikhailov Young Opera Singers’ Competition
2nd prize at the III International Pavel Lisitsian Competition
Grand Prix at the I International Young Opera Singers’ Competition Opera without Borders
4th prize at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition
3rd prize at the 51th International Singing Competition of Toulouse
1st prize at the VII Nadezhda Obukhova Russian National Competition for Young Vocalists
Grand Prix at the I Sobinov International Vocal Competition