Irina Novikova

IRINA NOVIKOVA – Soprano Born in Kurgan, Irina Novikova is a graduate from the Novosibirsk State Conservatory of Music and went on to win both the Sabitov Competition in Ufa and the Sobinov Competition. Her operatic debut was under Mstislav Rostropovich in his Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk project which toured out of Russia, appearing at the Prinz Regent Theater, Munich, in Dijon, at the Teatro Colón Buenos Aires and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome. Under Gerald Kegelmann she sang soprano solo in the Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem and extracts of the role of Donna Elvira Don Giovanni during Russian-German Festival in Novosibirsk. She is a member of the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (NOVAT) where she appears as a principal soprano spinto.

Roles

UN BALLO IN MASCHERA: Amelia ~ Novosibirsk State Opera Theatre

LA BOHEME: Mimì ~ Novosibirsk State Opera Theatre

CARMEN: Micaela~ Novosibirsk State Opera Theatre; The Komi Republic Opera and Ballet Theater

DIDO AND AENEAS: Title role ~Novosibirsk State Philarmonia

EUGENE ONEGIN: Tatiana ~ Novosibirsk State Opera Theatre; Saransk State Opera Theatre

FAUST: Marguerite~ Novosibirsk State Opera Theatre

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FRANCESCA DA RIMINI: Title role ~ Novosibirsk State Opera Theatre; The Komi Republic Opera and Ballet Theater

IOLANTA: Title role ~ Novosibirsk State Opera Theatre; Omsk Stare Philharmonic Orchestra

KÁŤA KABANOVÁ: Title role ~ Novosibirsk State Opera Theatre

LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK: Aksinya~ Prinzregenttheatre; Auditorium de Dijon; Teatro Colón; Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

MADAME BATTERFLY: Cio Cio San ~ Novosibirsk State Opera Theatre

THE MERMAIND: Natasha ~ Novosibirsk State Opera Theatre

OTELLO: Desdemona ~Novosibirsk State Opera Theatre;

PAGLIACCI: Nedda ~ Novosibirsk State Opera Theatre

PIQUE DAME: Lisa ~ Novosibirsk State Opera Theatre; The Komi Republic Opera and Ballet Theater

PRINCE IGOR: Yaroslavna ~ Novosibirsk State Opera Theatre

TANNHAUSER: Elisabeth ~ Novosibirsk State Opera Theatre

TOSCA: Title role ~ Novosibirsk State Opera Theatre; Mongolian State Opera Theatre; Chelyabinsk State Opera Theatre

TURANDOT: Liù ~ Novosibirsk State Opera Theatre

Concerts include: Brahms - EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM; Mozart – REQUIEM; Rossini - STABAT MATER; Shostakovich – SYMPHONY NO. 14; Stravinsky – LES NOCES; Verdi – MESSA DA REQUIEM

Conductors and directors with whom she has collaborated include: Ara Carapetyan; Teodor Currentzis; Mikhail Granovskiy; Dmitry Jurovsky; Gerald Kegelmann; Dmitry Korchak; Mstislav Rostropovitch; Ainars Rubikis; Arkady Steinlucht; Valentin Urupin; Evgeny Volynskiy