Bolshoi Theatre • Anastasia Kalagina

Soprano

Anastasia
Kalagina

Anastasia Kalagina

Graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire. In 1998 she joined the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers. Anastasia Kalagina has been a Mariinsky Opera soloist since 2007.

In 2016 she debuted at the Bolshoi Theatre as the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro). Рerformed the part of Madama Cortese (Il viaggio a Reims), both in concert version (2017) and in new production of Damiano Michieletto (2019).

Awards

the special Stanisław Moniuszko Prize at the International Stanisław Moniuszko Vocalists’ Competition

2001, Warsaw

1st prize at the V International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers’ Competition

2002, St Petersburg

Prize-winner at the International Vocalists’ Competition in China

2005

Recipient of the Montblanc New Names prize

2008

Repertoire

Marfa (The Tsar’s Bride)
The Snow Maiden (The Snow Maiden)
Swan Princess (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Ninetta (The Love for Three Oranges)
Natasha (War and Peace)
Louisa (Betrothal in a Monastery)
Lolita (Lolita)
Madama Cortese (Il viaggio a Reims)
Adina (L’elisir d’amore)
Norina (Don Pasquale)
Gilda (Rigoletto)
Nannetta (Falstaff)
Micaëla, Frasquita (Carmen)
Teresa (Benvenuto Cellini)
Antonia (Les Contes d’Hoffman)
Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande)
Ilia (Idomeneo, re di Creta)
Susanna, the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro)
Zerlina (Don Giovanni)
Pamina (Die Zauberflöte)
Woodbird (Siegfried)
Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier)
Zerbinetta, Naiad (Ariadne auf Naxos)

The singer’s concert repertoire includes the soprano roles in Bach’s Matthäus-Passion, Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah, Mahler’s Second, Fourth and Eighth Symphonies, Mozart’s Requiem, Fauré’s Requiem, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Dvořák’s Stabat Mater and Orff’s Carmina Burana.

General partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — insurance company «Ingosstrakh»

Privileged sponsor of the Bolshoi Theatre — Tinkoff Bank

Privileged partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — GUM