Olga Peretyatko
Olga Peretyatko graduated from the St Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Music School as well as from the St Petersburg University of Culture and Arts as a chorus conductor. Afterwards, she studied under the supervision of Larisa Gogolevskaya as well as at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin under the supervision of Brenda Mitchell. In 2005–2007, she was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera.
Peretyatko’s répertoire includes leading soprano roles in operas by George Frideric Handel (Alcina), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Lucio Silla), Vincenzo Bellini (I Capuleti e i Montecchi, I puritani), Gioachino Rossini (Il turco in Italia, Tancredi, Matilde di Shabran, Otello, Sigismondo, La scala di seta), Gaetano Donizetti (L’elisir d’amore, Lucia di Lammermoor), Giuseppe Verdi (Rigoletto, La traviata), Georges Bizet (Les pêcheurs de perles), Rimsky-Korsakov (Tsar’s Bride), Richard Strauss (Ariadne auf Naxos), and Igor Stravinsky (The Nightingale) among others.
She has appeared at the best venues of the world including La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, venues of Vienna, Zürich, Munich, Venice, Berlin, Madrid, Paris, Brussels, Moscow, St Petersburg, Lausanne, Toronto, Amsterdam, Lyon, and New York. She has participated in the Salzburg Festival as well as in festivals in Baden-Baden, Aix-en-Provence, and Pesaro. Her recent recital schedule has included a performance under the Eiffel Tower for the Bastille Day Celebrations, Strauss’s Four Last Songs at the Kennedy Center in Washington D. C. with the National Symphony Orchestra, and a tour to China with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Kent Nagano.
She has cooperated with Robert Lepage, Wim Wenders, Daniel Barenboim, Richard Bonynge, Zubin Mehta, Marc Minkowski, Pablo Heras-Casado, Marco Armiliato, and other renowned conductors and directors.
The singer’s discography includes the album Rissini! (ECHO Klassik), the collection of Russian vocal pieces Russian Light (Sony Classical Records), and recordings of bel canto arias. Performances featuring Olga Peretyatko have been recorded for Decca, Arthaus Musik, and Opus Arte.
Peretyatko’s répertoire includes leading soprano roles in operas by George Frideric Handel (Alcina), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Lucio Silla), Vincenzo Bellini (I Capuleti e i Montecchi, I puritani), Gioachino Rossini (Il turco in Italia, Tancredi, Matilde di Shabran, Otello, Sigismondo, La scala di seta), Gaetano Donizetti (L’elisir d’amore, Lucia di Lammermoor), Giuseppe Verdi (Rigoletto, La traviata), Georges Bizet (Les pêcheurs de perles), Rimsky-Korsakov (Tsar’s Bride), Richard Strauss (Ariadne auf Naxos), and Igor Stravinsky (The Nightingale) among others.
She has appeared at the best venues of the world including La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, venues of Vienna, Zürich, Munich, Venice, Berlin, Madrid, Paris, Brussels, Moscow, St Petersburg, Lausanne, Toronto, Amsterdam, Lyon, and New York. She has participated in the Salzburg Festival as well as in festivals in Baden-Baden, Aix-en-Provence, and Pesaro. Her recent recital schedule has included a performance under the Eiffel Tower for the Bastille Day Celebrations, Strauss’s Four Last Songs at the Kennedy Center in Washington D. C. with the National Symphony Orchestra, and a tour to China with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Kent Nagano.
She has cooperated with Robert Lepage, Wim Wenders, Daniel Barenboim, Richard Bonynge, Zubin Mehta, Marc Minkowski, Pablo Heras-Casado, Marco Armiliato, and other renowned conductors and directors.
The singer’s discography includes the album Rissini! (ECHO Klassik), the collection of Russian vocal pieces Russian Light (Sony Classical Records), and recordings of bel canto arias. Performances featuring Olga Peretyatko have been recorded for Decca, Arthaus Musik, and Opus Arte.
- ECHO Klassik Award for the Best Solo Album of the Year (2016)
- 2nd Prize for the Placido Domingo Competition (2007)
- 2nd Prize for the Debut Competition (Bad Mergentheim, 2006)
- 3rd Prize for the Ferruccio Tagliavini International Opera Competition (Deutschlandsberg, 2004)
- Bel Canto International Award (Bad Wildbad, 2005)
- Franco Abbiati Music Critics Prize
