Lesya Alekseeva

Lesia Alekseyeva graduated from the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy in Kiev and continued her music studies at the Graz University of Music and Performing Arts receiving her Master of Arts in opera singing. She was a trainee of Josef Loibl and Claudia Rüggeberg as well as Regina Resnik (in Treviso). In 2002–2008, she collaborated with the opera houses of Graz and Linz performing Vitellia (Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito), Donna Elvira (Mozart’s Don Giovanni), Giuli-etta (Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Nedda (Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci), Micaëla (Bizet’s Carmen), Mimì (Puccini’s La Bohème), Rusalka (Dvořák’s Rusalka), Leonora (Verdi’s Il trovatore), and Desdemona (Verdi’s Otello). Since 2008, she has been a lead soprano with the Ukrainian National Opera and Ballet Theatre where she performed Cio-Cio-san (Puc-cini’s Madama Butterfly), Manon Lescaut (Puccini’s Manon Lescaut), Santuzza (Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana), Aida (Verdi’s Aida), Elisabeth (Verdi’s Don Carlos), Iolanta (Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta), Militrisa (Rimsky-Korsakov’s Tale of Tsar Saltan), Oxana (Hulak-Artemovsky’s Cossack Beyond the Danube), and Natalka (Lysenko’s Natalka Poltavka). In 2011, she performed Magda Sorel in Gian Carlo Menotti’s Consul in London. In 2012 at the Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, she performed Senta in the German-Ukrainian co-production of Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer. With this production, she toured to Odessa, Lviv, Kiev, and Germany. Since 2013, she has been cooperated with the Mariinsky Theatre performing Cio-Cio-san (Madama Butterfly), Senta (Der fliegende Holländer), and Sieglinde (Wagner’s Die Walküre). She has given recitals in Prague, Vienna, Graz, Linz, Munich, Brussels, New York, London, Palermo, and St Petersburg (Mariinsky Theatre) where she performed opera arias as well as Richard Strauss’s Vier Letzte Lieder and Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder. She regularly features in chamber music concerts in Ukraine and abroad. She has recorded Shostakovich’s romances on poems by Blok on the Austrian radio.