Mezzo-soprano
Nadezhda
Serdyuk
Nadezhda Serdyuk

After graduating from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (1997) Nadezhda Serdyuk became the soloist of the Novaya Opera Theatre in Moscow.

In 1998 she entered the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers. Since 2007 she has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Opera Company.

At the Bolshoi Theatre she debuted as Spring in The Snow Maiden production in 2018, and at the same year performed the role of Ulrika (Un ballo in maschera). In 2020 she took part in Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa concert version (conductor Tugan Sokhiev).

Awards
St Petersburg's theatre prize the Golden Sofit for "Best female role in opera"
2016
2nd prize at the Elena Obraztsova International Competition of Young Opera Singers (Saint-Petersburg)
1999
2nd prize at the Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition of Young Opera Singers (Saint-Petersburg)
1998
2nd prize at the Glinka International Competition of Vocalists (Ufa)
1995
Repertoire
2023
Repertoire at the Bolshoi Theatre

Spring (The Snow Maiden)
Ulrica (Un Ballo in Maschera)
Lyubov (Mazeppa, concert performance)
Ježibaba (Rusalka by Dvořák)
Innkeeper (Boris Godunov)

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre

Olga (Eugene Onegin)
Polina, Milovzor (The Queen of Spades)
Spring Beauty (The Snow Maiden)
Lyubov (Mazeppa)
Lyubava (Sadko)
Marina Mnishek (Boris Godunov)
Lyubasha (The Tsar’s Bride)
Boyarynya Morozova (The Oprichnik)
Mademoiselle Blanche (The Gambler)
Clarice (The Love for Three Oranges)
Mother (Mavra)
Clara (Betrothal in a Monastery)
Hélène Bezukhova (War and Peace)
Varya (The Story of a Real Man in concert)
Jocasta (Oedipus Rex)
Rita Osyanina (The Dawns Here Are Quiet in concert)
Varvara Vasilyevna (Not Love Alone)
Argafena Alexandrovna (The Brothers Karamazov)
Catherine II (The Captain's Daughter in concert)
Idamante (Idomeneo, rè di Creta)
Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro)
Dorabella (Così fan tutte)
Adalgisa (Norma in concert)
Fenena (Nabucco)
Flora Bervoix (La traviata)
Amneris (Aida)
Azucena (Il trovatore)
Princess Eboli (Don Carlo)
Mezzo-soprano (stage version of Verdi’s Requiem)
Preziosilla (La forza del destino)
Lola (Cavalleria rusticana in concert)
Frugola (Il tabarro)
Nursing Sister, Monitress (Suor Angelica)
Giulietta (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)
Waltraute (Die Walküre)
Flosshilde (Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung)
The Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos)
Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier in concert)
The Witch (Hansel und Gretel)
Ježibaba (Rusalka)

Also in repertoire

Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Leonora (La favorite)
Albine (Thaïs)
Death (Le Rossignol)
Joan (The Maid of Orleans)

the mezzo-soprano parts in Bach’s Magnificat, Saint-Saëns’ Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Stravinsky’s Les Noces and Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater

Tours

Nadezhda Serdyuk has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company to New York (Metropolitan Opera), London (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), Paris (Théâtre du Châtelet), Milan (La Scala), Washington (Kennedy Center), Tokyo, Madrid, Amsterdam and Baden-Baden; she has taken part in the Mikkeli Music Festival (Finland).

She has taken part in a production of Prokofiev’s opera The Love for Three Oranges in Aix-en-Provence (2004), Luxembourg (2005) and Madrid (2006).

In the 2008-2009 season she performed the role of Albine (Thaïs) and Polina (The Queen of Spades) at the Teatro Regio (Turin).

She has collaborated with many renowned contemporary conductors, among them Valery Gergiev, Gianandrea Noseda, Yevgeny Kolobov, Yuri Bashmet, Saulus Sondeckis, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Michael Tilson Thomas and Helmuth Rilling.

The singer’s discography includes recordings of the operas The Love for Three Oranges, Thaïs and Mozart’s Requiem.

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