Ksenia Dudnikova

Ksenia Dudnikova graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in 2013. Since 2011, she has been a soloist of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre in Moscow, where she performs Amneris in Verdi’s Aida, Marfa in Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina, Carmen in Bizet’s Carmen, Nicklausse in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Olga in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, and Hélène Bezukhova in Prokofiev’s War and Peace among others. In 2013–2016, she appeared with the Russian State Capella under Valery Polyansky performing Vanya in Glinka’s Life for the Tsar, Frosya in Prokofiev’s Semyon Kotko, and Polina in Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades. Since 2016, she has been a soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre, where she performs Marguerite in Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust, Lyubasha in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Tsar’s Bride, Polina in Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, and Lyubava in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sadko. In 2017, she made her debut with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as Princess de Bouillon in Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur. She also performed Princess de Bouillon in Seville in 2018 and in Florence in 2021. In 2017–2021, she performed the title role in Tchaikovsky’s Maid of Orleans at the Geneva Opera, Sonetka in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the Salzburg Festival, Olga in Eugene Onegin at the Zurich Opera, Amneris in Aida at La Monnaie and Bastille Opera, the title role in Carmen at the Dresden Opera, Bastille Opera, and Arena di Verona, and Eboli in Verdi’s Don Carlos at the Stuttgart Opera. She appears at the opera theatres of Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Kazan, and other cities. The singer’s répertoire also includes mezzo-soprano parts in Verdi’s Requiem, Berkeley’s Stabat Mater, Penderecki’s Te Deum, and chamber vocal pieces by Balakirev, Berlioz, Debussy, Mussorgsky, Poulenc, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tariverdiev, Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss, Shchedrin, and other composers. She has cooperated with Felix Korobov, Valery Polyansky, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Alexander Lazarev, Michael Güttler, Evgeny Brazhnikov, Tugan Sokhiev, Dmitri Jurowski, Mariss Jansons, Alain Altinoglu, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Timur Zangiev, Antonino Fogliani, Lorenzo Viotti, Daniel Oren, Michele Mariotti, Daniel Harding and other conductors as well as with Alexander Titel, Peter Stein, Lorenzo Mariani, Barrie Kosky, Statis Livatinos, Andreas Kriegenburg, Calixto Bieito, Hugo de Ana, Lotte de Beer, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Frederic Wake-Walker, and other directors.

Nomination for the Golden Mask Russian Highest Theatre Award (Amneris in Aida at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre in Moscow, 2015)
Nomination for the Golden Mask Russian Highest Theatre Award (Carmen in Carmen at the Ekaterinburg Opera, 2017)
Nomination for the Golden Mask Russian Highest Theatre Award (Marguerite in Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust at the Bolshoi Theatre, 2017)