In 2000 Oxana Shilova graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire, having become a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers in 1999. Joined the Mariinsky Opera Company in 2007.

Oxana Shilova took part in a production of Shostakovich’s operetta Moscow, Cheryomushki at the Opéra de Lyon, in 2006 she sang the role of Lucrezia (Lucrezia Borgia) at De Nederlandse Opera and in the 2008-2009 season she appeared in a new production of Rossini’s opera Il viaggio a Reims, performing the role of Madame Cortese (Reims, Montpelier, Avignon, Bordeaux, Toulouse and Marseilles).

In 2012 she took part in the production of La Traviata at the Bolshoi Theatre, singing the part of Violetta (conductor Laurent Campellone, director Francesca Zambello).

Oxana Shilova has worked with the well-known conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Pablo Heras-Casado, Gianandrea Noseda, Placido Domingo, Tugan Sokhiev, Mickhael Güttler, Nikolaj Znaider, Constantine Orbelian, Mikhail Tatarnikov and Yuri Bashmet.