Olesya Petrova

Mezzo/ Contralto Olesya Petrova was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She graduated from the St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 2008, class of Professor Irina Bogacheva.

Future projects include Amneris and Ulrica at the MET, Azucena in Firenze and at Opera Østfold, Verdi with Cadaques orchestra, among others. Most recently she performed Amneris at New Zealand Opera Auckland, as well as Polina at Bolschoi theater, Carmen Concertante with Győr Philharmonic Orchestra and Ulrica in St Petesburg. Recently performed Azucena/Trovatore at Firenze and Oslo Opera houses, Amneris/, Ulrica/Ballo in Maschera and Federica/ at the MET, Mozarts Requiem with Shanghai Symphony orchestra, Amneris/Aida at Arena di Verona, Carmen in Gyori, Hungary, Amelfa/The Golden Cockerel at Teatro Real de Madrid, Federica/Luisa Miller at di Trieste, Emilia/ at Liceu de Barcelona, Amneris/Aida in Montreal, Verdi's Requiem under Fabio Luisi and danish Symphony Orchestra, the same part under he baton of Placido Domingo with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen, Santuzza and Ulrica at Mikhailovsky Theater st Petersburg.

In 2015 she performed among others Tales of Hoffman at the MET in New York, Verdi Requiem at Théâtre des Chatelet in Paris, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with David Robertson in Sydney and Charlotte/Werther at Teatro Verdi di Trieste.

2013/2014 had her Debut as Madelon/Andrea Chenier at the Metropolitan Opera, Azucena at the Latvian National Opera and as Fenena/ at Opéra de Montreal, among others. 2014/2015 and later returns to MET for mother in Le comtes de Hoffmann as well as to Staatsoper Hamburg for Federica in Luisa Miller and Teatro del Liceo Barcelona for Emilia in Otello, and the mezzo part in Ivan the Terrible with Oviedo Filarmonía, among others. 2012/2013 she covered Maddalena/ at The Metropolitan Opera and sung Ulrica/Ballo in Maschera at Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf as well as Suzuki/Butterfly at Greek National Opera in Athens and Mrs. Sedley/Peter Grimes at Hamburg State Opera . Olesya Petrova also took part in an opera gala concert at Teatro Filarmonico di Verona and sung Requiem di Verdi in Sydney.

Olesya Petrova has been a soloist with the St.Petersburg Conservatory Opera Theatre since 2007. Here her repertoire includes Marfa (Khovanshchina), Konchakovna (Prince Igor), Lel (The Snow Maiden), Lyubasha (The Tsar's Bride) on Perm Opera and Novosibirsk Opera, Amneris (Aida) in Bankok, Carmen (Carmen), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Polina, Countess (The Queen of Spades), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Ioanna (The Maid of Orleans) and Ulrica ().

She is a very sought after concert singer with many Russian Orchestra’s and Chamber Ensembles and her concert repertoire includes cantatas and oratorio works by Bach, Pergolesi, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, Berlioz, Wagner, Mahler and Prokofiev with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Leo Kremer, Fabio Mastrangelo and Vladimir Fedoseev.

Olesya Petrova has toured in Europe, the USA, South America, Korea, China and Japan and the 11/12 season marks her international breakthrough as Konschakowna in Borodin’s Prince Igor at Zürich Opera. This season she will also sing Ulrica/Ballo in Maschera at Greek National Opera in Athens.

She is a prize winner at the XI International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow, 2007, 2nd prize) and r at the I International Competition of Galina Vishnevskaya (Moscow,2006,2rd prize). In 2011she reached the final in Cardiff Singer of the World.