Venera Gimadieva

Venera Gimadieva studied singing at the Kazan Music College (graduated in 2003) and the St Petersburg State Conservatory (graduated in 2009). In 2008–2009, she sang at the St Petersburg Opera Theatre. In 2009–2011, she studied on the Bolshoi Theatre’s Young Artist Programme in Moscow and joined the Bolshoi Theatre as a company member, where her repertoire included roles of Gilda (Rigoletto), Marfa (The Tsar’s Bride), Amina (La sonnambula), Violetta (La traviata), the title role of The Snow Maiden and the Queen of Shemakha (The Golden Cockerel), Norina (Don Pasquale), Ksenia (Boris Godunov), Sirin (The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh and Maiden Fevronia).

She now sings regularly at the world’s major opera houses, with appearances including Lucia di Lammermoor for Zürich Opera, Teatro Real, Madrid, Bavarian State Opera and Semperoper Dresden, Violetta Valéry for Bavarian State Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Deutsche Oper Berlin and Washington National Opera, Queen of Shemakha for La Monnaie, Brussels, Amsterdam Concertgebouw in concert and Santa Fe Opera, Elvira (I puritani) for Teatro Real, Madrid, and Vienna State Opera, Amina for Deutsche Oper Berlin and Marguerite de Valois (Les Huguenots) for Semperoper Dresden.

Gimadieva’s concert engagements include Ein deutsches Requiem with the Russian National Orchestra, Rachmaninoff and Tatar songs at the Royal Festival Hall, a concert for the Al Bustain International Festival of Music and Performing Arts, Lebanon, and the Berlin AIDS Gala Concert.

She cooperated with many renowned stage directors, including Lorent Pelly, Paul Curran, Francesca Zambello, conductors Sir Mark Elder, Vasily Petrenko, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Ivor Bolton, Evelino Pido, Tugan Sokhiev, Yves Abel, Domingo Hindoyan, Daniel Oren.

International Music BraVo premium in the category “Best Classical Female Vocal” (2019)
2nd prize of the Paris Vocal Competition (2015)
“Golden Mask” National Theatre Award in the category “Best Female Opera Role” for the role of Amina in La sonnambula at the Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow, 2014)
Premium of the President of the Russian Federation “For Outstanding Performance Skills Enriching and Developing the Traditions of the National Vocal School”
1st prize of the Chaliapin International Vocal Competition “Voices over the Plyos” (2010)
Diploma of the International Vocal Competition (Dresden, 2009)
3rd prize of the Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov International Vocal Competition (St Petersburg, 2008)