Olga Peretyatko is celebrated by the press as “coloratura phenomenon“ and a “real nightingale with a sweet voice and technically perfect coloraturas”. Russian soprano comes from St. Petersburg, where she began her musical career at the age of fifteen at the children’s choir of the Mariinsky Theatre. She completed a course of training as a choirmaster before enrolling to study voice at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin. She has already been among the prizewinners in several competitions including the international Operalia competition in Paris, where she was awarded the second prize.
Between 2005–2007, Olga Peretyatko was a member of the opera studio at the Hamburg State Opera. Then, she followed engagements at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Berlin and Munich State Operas, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Teatro La Fenice in Venice and at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and the Festival La Folle Journée de Nantes. She attracted international attention in the title role of Stravinsky’s Rossignol at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2010 and since then she has created this role in Amsterdam, New York, Boston and Canada. In 2012, Olga Peretyatko sang Fiorilla (Rossini: It turco in Italia) at the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam, Adina (Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore) in Baden-Baden and Opéra de Lausanne, Lucia (Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor) at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin; she sang the title role of Rossini’s Mathilde di Shabran alongside Juan Diego Flórez at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Elvira (Bellini: I puritani) in Lyon and at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. On New Year’s Eve 2012, she sang in a concert gala with Thomas Hampson and Rolando Villazón in Baden-Baden. Rolando was also her stage partner at Mozart’s opera Lucio Silla in January 2013 at the Mozartwochen Festival in Salzburg and both artists will meet again at the same opera at the Salzburg Festival in July 2013. April and May will find Olga at the Vienna State Opera as Gilda (Verdi: Rigoletto) and Adina; in August, she will sing the role of Gilda at the Arena di Verona and in November, she will be Zerbinetta (R. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos) at the Hamburg State Opera. In March 2014, she will make her debut at La Scala, Milan (Marfa in The Tsar’s Bride by Rimsky-Korsakov) while in April she will debut at the Metropolitan Opera (Elvira in I puritani). Olga Peretyatko records exclusively for Sony Classical that released her CD “La bellezza del canto” in 2011, to a great acclaim.

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Meno Oľga Pereťaťko si treba zapamätať

Krása spevu so slávikom z Petrohradu

Ruská princezná belcanta

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