Anna Pegova
Anna Pegova graduated from the Moscow District Prokofiev Musical college as an academical singer in 2001. In 2007, she graduated cum laude from the Vocal Department of the Russian Gnessin Musical Academy and became a postgraduate student of the Academy. While still a student, she participated in the Open Stage Festival as Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, interpreted Rachmaninoff’s Bells under the baton of Pavel Cogan, and took part in various concerts in Vladivostok, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Krasnodar, and other Russian cities.
In 2018, she joined the Russian State Capella. Under the baton of the Principal Conductor of the Capella Valery Polyansky, she performed soprano parts in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, requiems by Mozart, Verdi, Brahms, Fauré, and Bruckner, masses by Rossini, Beethoven, and Schubert, Mahler’s 4th Symphony, and others, as well as Tatiana in Eugene Onegin and Oksana in Tcherevichki by Tchaikovsky, Violetta in La traviata, Luisa Miller in Luisa Miller, Nanetta in Falstaff, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, and Priestess in Aida by Verdi, Oksana in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Christmas Eve, Francesca in Rachmaninoff’s Francesca da Rimini, Lyubka in Prokofiev’s Semyon Kotko, and Countess Lyudmila (Schubert’s Der Hausliche Kriget oder die Verschworenen).
She appeared at the Bremen Opera and at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro with Rossini’s Maometto II and Il viaggio a Reims (Anna Erisso and Madam Cortese). Since 2015, Anna Pegova has been a soloist with the Helicon Theatre in Moscow. At the Theatre, she performs Ekaterina II in Tukhmanov’s Tsarina, Lisa in Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, Amelia in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, Alexandra Feodorovna in Reise’s Rasputin, Nedda in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Stephanie in Giordano’s Siberia, Leonora in Verdi’s Il trovatore, Antonia in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and Angelica in Handel’s Orlando, Orlando. The singer’s répertoire also includes Purcell’s King Arthur, Fairy Queen, and Tempest or The Enchanted Island, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, Stravinsky’s Les noces, Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Schubert’s 9th Symphony, Janáček’s Eternal Gospel, Orff’s Catulli Carmina, Papandopulo’s Croatian Mass, as well as vocal cycles, romances and pieces from operas by Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Mussorgsky, Schumann, Grieg, and others.
In 2018, she joined the Russian State Capella. Under the baton of the Principal Conductor of the Capella Valery Polyansky, she performed soprano parts in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, requiems by Mozart, Verdi, Brahms, Fauré, and Bruckner, masses by Rossini, Beethoven, and Schubert, Mahler’s 4th Symphony, and others, as well as Tatiana in Eugene Onegin and Oksana in Tcherevichki by Tchaikovsky, Violetta in La traviata, Luisa Miller in Luisa Miller, Nanetta in Falstaff, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, and Priestess in Aida by Verdi, Oksana in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Christmas Eve, Francesca in Rachmaninoff’s Francesca da Rimini, Lyubka in Prokofiev’s Semyon Kotko, and Countess Lyudmila (Schubert’s Der Hausliche Kriget oder die Verschworenen).
She appeared at the Bremen Opera and at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro with Rossini’s Maometto II and Il viaggio a Reims (Anna Erisso and Madam Cortese). Since 2015, Anna Pegova has been a soloist with the Helicon Theatre in Moscow. At the Theatre, she performs Ekaterina II in Tukhmanov’s Tsarina, Lisa in Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, Amelia in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, Alexandra Feodorovna in Reise’s Rasputin, Nedda in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Stephanie in Giordano’s Siberia, Leonora in Verdi’s Il trovatore, Antonia in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and Angelica in Handel’s Orlando, Orlando. The singer’s répertoire also includes Purcell’s King Arthur, Fairy Queen, and Tempest or The Enchanted Island, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, Stravinsky’s Les noces, Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Schubert’s 9th Symphony, Janáček’s Eternal Gospel, Orff’s Catulli Carmina, Papandopulo’s Croatian Mass, as well as vocal cycles, romances and pieces from operas by Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Mussorgsky, Schumann, Grieg, and others.
- 1st Prize for the Bella voce International Vocal Competition among Students (Moscow, 2005)
- 2nd Prize and the Audience Award for the Italian Opera Competition in Dresden (2007)
- 2nd Prize for the International Competition Among Young Artists Romanciada (Moscow, 2004)
- Special Prize from Dmitry Bertman and Helicon Opera for the Belvedere International Singing Competition (Vienna, 2012)
