Bolshoi Theatre Young Opera Program Artist (Mezzo-soprano)
Valeria
Torunova
Valeria Torunova

Born in Tyumen.

She graduated with honours from a music school in guitar and vocals and continued her studies at the Tyumen College of Arts. In 2016 entered the vocal faculty at the Glinka Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatory (class of Lyubov Dudoladova). At the opera studio of the conservatory, she performed in the productions The key on the pavement or the husband behind the door by J. Offenbach, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by B. Britten, The Snow Maiden by N. Rimsky-Korsakov.

Since 2020 – has been a student at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre (class of Anatoly Loshak), has sung in the operas Faust, The Tsar’s Bride, Carmen.

In 2022 was accepted into the Young Artists Opera Programme of the Bolshoi Theatre.

Awards

2nd award of the 14th International Elena Obraztsova Competition of Young Opera Singers

2023, St Petersburg
General partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — insurance company «Ingosstrakh»
Privileged sponsor of the Bolshoi Theatre — Tinkoff Bank
Privileged partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — GUM