Mezzo-soprano
Ksenia
Dudnikova
Ksenia Dudnikova

Born in Andijan (Uzbekistan). Graduated from the conducting and choral department of the Krasnodar Music and Pedagogical College, then — from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory (class of Clara Kadinskaya).

In 2011-2021 — was a soloist with the opera troupe of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre.

In 2016 debuted at the Bolshoi Theatre in the part of Maddalena (Rigoletto).

Since October 2021 — has been a soloist with the opera troupe of the Bolshoi Theatre. 

Performs at the world’s leading theatres, amongst which are the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, the Paris National Opera, the Semperoper Dresden, Oper Stuttgart, Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Zürich Opera House, the Royal Theatre of La Monnaie in Brussels, the Gran Teatro del Liceo, the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Teatro Cervantes in Malaga and others.

Participated in the festivals Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Arena di Verona, Salzburg Festival and Sacred Music Festival in Riga.

Collaborates with the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, the Mikhailovsky Theatre, the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre, the Ural Opera, the Musa Dzhalil Tatar State Opera and Ballet Theatre and Moscow Theatre Novaya Opera.

Collaborates with the conductors Evgeny Brazhnik, Lorenzo Viotti, Timur Zangiev, Felix Korobov, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Alexander Lazarev, Daniel Oren, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Tugan Sokhiev, Alexander Titov, Antonino Fogliani, Vladimir Jurowski, Dmitri Jurowski, Mariss Jansons and others, with the directors Hugo de Ana, Lotte de Beer, Barrie Kosky, Andreas Kriegenburg, Stathis Livathinos, Lorenzo Mariani, Alexander Titel, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Peter Stein and others.

Repertoire
2024
2023
2022
Repertoire at the Bolshoi Theatre

Marguerite (La damnation de Faust by H. Berlioz)
Lyubasha (The Tsar’s Bride)
Polina (The Queen of Spades)
Lyubava Buslayevna (Sadko)
Marina Mnishek (Boris Godunov)
Ježibaba (Rusalka by A. Dvořák)
Lyubov (Mazeppa)
The Snow Queen (The Story of Kai and Gerda by S. Banevich)
Ulrica (Un ballo in maschera
Princess of Bouillon (Adriana Lecouvreur)

Also in repertoire

Amneris (Aida)
Carmen (Carmen)
Princess de Bouillon (Adriana Lecouvreur)
Eboli (Don Carlo)
Azucena (Il trovatore)
Marfa (Khovanshchina)
Olga (Eugene Onegin)
Jeanne d'Arc (The Maid of Orleans by P. Tchaikovsky)
Helene Bezukhova (War and Peace)
Konchakovna (Prince Igor)
Sonyetka (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Dorabella (Così fan tutte)
Nicklausse (Les contes d'Hoffmann)
Solokha (Christmas Eve by N. Rimsky-Korsakov)

Her concert repertoire includes — Messa da Requiem by G. Verdi, Stabat Mater by L. Berkeley, Te Deum by K. Penderecki, the vocal cycles Les nuits d'été by H. Berlioz, Wesendonck Lieder based on the five poems by Mathilde Wesendonck by R. Wagner, Songs and Dances of Death by M. Mussorgsky, Biblical Songs by A. Dvořák, the chamber vocal works by M. Balakiriev, C. Debussy, F. Poulenc, N. Rimsky-Korsakov, M. Tariverdiev, P. Tchaikovsky and R. Strauss.

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