Veronika Dzhioeva

Veronika Dzhioeva graduated from the Vladikavkaz Arts College as a vocalist in 2000. In 2005, she graduated from the St Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire. She cultivated her vocal skills under the supervision of Joan Sutherland and Maria Bieșu.

In 2006, she joined the Novosibirsk Opera Company. Nowadays, she appears at the best world venues including Bolshoi Theatre, Mariinsky Theatre, Huston Opera, La Monnaie, Prague Opera, Finnish Opera, Petruzzelli Theatre in Bari, Communal Theatre in Bologna, Massimo Theatre in Palermo, Madrid Royal Theatre, Philharmonic Theatre in Verona, and Hamburg Opera. Currently, she is also a guest soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre. The singer has performed in Great Britain, Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania, Japan, China, South Korea and USA. She performed under the batons of Mariss Jansons, Valery Gergiev, Trevor Pinnock, Ingo Metzmacher, Teodor Currentzis, Jac van Steen, Daniele Callegari, Mario Carminati, and Hartmut Haenchen. She participated in productions staged by Adrian Noble, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Peter Sellars, Paco Azorín, and others.
In 2015, the Veronika Dzhioeva Festival was organized in South Ossetia. In the next years, the festival was hosted by the New Opera Theatre in Moscow and NOVAT in Novosibirsk. The singer recorded several CDs including Opera Àrias (2006) with the Chamber Orchestra of the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Society and Ritorna vincitor! (2019, nomination for the International Classical Music Awards).

The singer répertoire includes Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, and the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart, the title roles in Thaïs by Massenet and Maria Stuarda by Donizetti, Mimì and Musetta in La Bohème, Turandot and Liù in Turandot and the titles roles in Tosca and Suor Angelica by Puccini, Élisabeth de Valois in Don Carlos, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Violetta in La traviata, Odabella in Attila, Leonora in Il trovatore, Desdemona in Othello by Verdi, Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, Elisabeth in Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Tatiana in Eugene Onegin and the title role in Iolanta by Tchaikovsky, Marfa in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Tsar’s Bride, Gorislava in Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila, Yaroslavna in Borodin’s Prince Igor, Tamara in Rubinstein’s Demon, Zemfira in Rachmaninoff’s Aleko, Marta in Weinberg’s Passenger, Urusova and Shchedrin’s Boyarina Morozova, Madina in De Zeegant’s La Brèche, as well as soprano parts in requiems by Mozart, Verdi, Dvořák, Saint-Saëns, Brahms, and Eduard Artemiev, Mahler’s 2nd and 9th Symphonies, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor, Rachmaninoff’s Bells, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Dvořák’s Te Deum, and Bruckner’s Te Deum.
  • Title “Honoured Artist of Russia” (2018)
  • Title “People’s Artist of the Republic of South Ossetia” (2015)
  • Title “People’s Artist of the Republic of North Ossetia — Alania” (2014)
  • Certificate of Merit given by the Ministry for Culture of the Republic of South Ossetia (2014)
  • Nomination for the Golden Mask Russian Highest Theatre Award (2014; for Élisabeth de Valois at the Bolshoi Theatre)
  • Title “Person of the Year” of the Republic of South Ossetia (2014)
  • Award People of Art of the 21st Century (2010)
  • 1st Prize for the Grand Opera TV Competition (2011)
  • Czech National Award Euro Pragensis Ars in the sphere of arts (2010)
  • Novosibirsk Theatre Award Paradise (Macbeth, 2009)
  • Title “Honoured Artist of the Republic of South Ossetia” (2009)
  • Title “Honoured Artist of the Republic of North Ossetia — Alania” (2009)
  • 2nd Prize for the International Klaudia Taev Competition (Pärnu, 2007)
  • 1st Prize for the International Competition of Chamber Singing “Amber Nightingale” (Kaliningrad, 2006)
  • 3rd Prize for the Russian National Opera Competition (St Petersburg, 2005)
  • 3rd Prize for the International Competition Maria Callas Grand Prix (Athens, 2005)
  • Prize for the International Glinka Competition (Astrakhan, 2003)
  • Prize for the International Competition World Vision (Astrakhan, 1998)
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