Aida Garifullina

Aida Garifullina studied the Nuremberg University of Music where she was taught by Siegfried Jerusalem. In 2007, she joined the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts under the tuition of Claudia Visca.
In 2013, the singer was invited by Valery Gergiev to join the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg. There, she made her first appearance as Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and later performed as Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto and Adina in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore. In 2014, she took part in opening nights of operas such as Prokofiev’s War and Peace (Natasha Rostova) and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Golden Cockerel (Queen of Shemakha). Staged by British director Graham Vick, the War and Peace performance was screened in cinemas across Europe, exposing thousands to the young soprano’s magnificent voice for the first time.
The same year she first graced the stage of Mariinsky Theatre, Aida won first prize in Placido Domingo’s Operalia, the prestigious International Opera Singers Competition.
Following her success at Operalia, she was offered a contract with legendary British record label, Decca Classics and received an invitation to join the Vienna State Opera, where she performed Musetta (La Bohème), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Princess Eudoxie (Halévy’s La Juive), Elvira (Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Zerlina (Mozart’s Don Giovanni), Norina (Donizetti’s Don Pasquale).
In 2017, she performed the title part in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snow Maiden staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov at the Bastille Opera.
Aida Garifullina is a regular guest soloist at the world’s leading opera houses, including the Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow), the Royal Covent Garden Theatre (London), La Scala (Milan), the Metropolitan Opera (New York), the Paris National Opera, the Vienna State Opera, among many others. The singer regularly performs at the prestigious Salzburg Festival and the Arena di Verona Festival and has collaborated with such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano, Placido Domingo, Gustavo Dudamel, Antonio Pappano, and Daniel Barenboim.