Gimadieva
In 2003 Venera Gimadieva graduated from Kazan Musical College. In 2009 she graduated from the St. Petersburg State Conservatoire (Svetlana Gorenkova’s class).
In 2008-09, she was a soloist with the St. Petersburg Opera theatre.
In October 2009, Venera Gimadieva joined the Bolshoi Theatre Young Artists Program.
In 2011-2017, she was a soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company.
She performed in such theatres as Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Paris National Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Hamburg State Opera, La Fenice, Teatro Real, Madrid, Zurich Opera, La Monnaie, Hungarian State Opera, Washington National Opera, Santa Fe Opera.
She has worked with conductors including Sir Mark Elder, Vasily Petrenko, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Ivor Bolton, Evelino Pidò, Tugan Sokhiev, Yves Abel, Domingo Hindoyan and Daniel Oren. She has worked with directors including Laurent Pelly, Paul Curran and Francesca Zambello and singers including Juan Diego Flórez, José Carreras, Aleksandra Kurzac and Roberto Alagna.
Since 2023 has been a soloist with the Nizhny Novgorod Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Prize of the President of the Russian Federation
The Golden Mask National Theatre prize for the role of Amina in La Sonnambula
3rd Prize at the Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition in St. Petersburg
Diploma at the Opera Singers International Competition in Dresden
1st Prize at the Chaliapin International Competition in Ples, Russia
2nd Prize at the Paris Opera Competition
Linda (Linda di Chamounix)
Sirin (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and of the Maiden Fevronia)
The Snow Maiden (The Snow Maiden)
The Tsaritsa of Shemakha (The Golden Cockerel)
Marfa (The Tsar’s Bride)
Xenia (Boris Godunov)
Violetta (La Traviata)
Amina (La Sonnambula)
A Voice from Heaven (Don Carlo)
Norina (Don Pasquale)
Violetta (La traviata) — Opéra de Limoges, Hungarian State Opera, La Fenice, Paris National Opera, Washington National Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Hamburg State Opera, Teatro comunale Treviso, Glyndebourne Festival, Savonlinna Opera Festival
Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor) — Opéra de Rouen Normandie, Opéra de Limoges, Opéra de Reims, Semperoper Dresden, Teatro Real, Madrid, Bavarian State Opera, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Zurich Opera, Hamburg State Opera
Queen of Shemakha (The Golden Cockerel) — Teatro Real, Madrid, La Monnaie, Opera Santa Fe, Adelaide Festival
Gilda (Rigoletto) — Hungarian State Opera
Juliette (Roméo et Juliette) — Festival Internacional de Ópera, Lima
Elvira (I puritani) — Teatro Real, Madrid
Marguerite (Les Huguenots) — Semperoper Dresden
Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) — Deutsche Oper Berlin;
Amina (La sonnambula) — Deutsche Oper Berlin
Glyndebourne Festival Opera, director Tom Cairns, Opus Arte, DVD
La Monnaie, director Laurent Pelly, Belair, DVD
Naxos, CD
arias by Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini, The Hallé Orchestra conducted by Gianluca Marcianò, Rubicon Classics, CD