Agunda’s recent and upcoming engagements include Amneris in Aida, Olga in Eugene Onegin (Novaya Opera Theatre), Lyubasha in The Tsar's Bride (Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Theater an der Wien, Novaya Opera Theatre, Hong-Kong, and Amsterdam), The Spring in Snow Maiden, Eboli in Don Carlos and The Snow Queen in Banevich’s The Story of Kai and Gerda (Bolshoi Theatre Moscow), Konchakovna in Prince Igor (Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam), among others.

From 2005 to 2014 she was a soloist at Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow. The same year she made her debut at Bolshoi Theatre Moscow as Sonya in the premiere production of War and Peace, working alongside conductors such as Mstislav Rostropovich and Alexander Vedernikov. Since 2014 Agunda Kulaeva is a leading soloist of Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

As a regular guest soloist at the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, Agunda performed Konchakovna in Prince Igor, Carmen, Olga in Eugene Onegin, Polina in The Queen of Spades, and Lyubasha in The Tsar's Bride.

Other engagements include Carmen (Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bolshoi Theatre, Arena di Verona), Olga in Eugene Onegin, Countess, Governess in The Queen of Spades, Lel in The Snow Maiden, Konchakovna in Prince Igor, Ratmir in Ruslan and Lyudmila, the title role in La Cenerentola, Fenena in Nabucco, Santuzza and Lola in Cavalleria rusticana, Zita in Gianni Schicchi, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Flora in La traviata, Myrtale in Thais, Page in Lohengrin, and Marfa in Khovanshchina (Novaya Opera Theatre), Carmen, Eboli in Don Carlos and Amneris for Varna Summer Opera Festival,, Amneris in Aida (Sofia National Opera and Ballet Theater, Novaya Opera Theatre Moscow), Lyubasha in The Tsar's Bride (Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Theater an der Wien, Novaya Opera Theatre, Hong-Kong, Amsterdam), Eboli in Don Carlos and Banevich’s The Story of Kai and Gerda (Bolshoi Theatre Moscow) as well as Marina Mniszek in Boris Godunov, Dunyasha in The Tsar's Bride, Zhenya Komelkova in Molchanov's The Dawns Here Are Quiet, Arsace in Rossini's Semiramide, Delilah in Samson and Delilah, Enchantress in Dido and Aeneas, and Adalgisa in Norma.

Her concert repertoire includes Verdi's Requiem (Moscow City Orchestra, Verdi Orchestra Milano), Mozart's Requiem, Prokofiev’s cantata Alexander Nevsky, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis (Noord Nederlands Orkest, the Netherlands, Jan Willem de Vriend, conductor) and 9th Symphony, mezzo-soprano part in Dvorak's Stabat Mater and mezzo-soprano and second soprano parts in Bach’s h-Moll-Messe (Big Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev, conductor), Taneyev’s cantata At the Reading of a Psalm (Moscow State Chamber Choir, Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev, conductor).

Agunda Kulaeva has given recitals in Moscow, St Petersburg, Tambov, Kazan, Perm, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Kaliningrad, Tver. She took part in festivals such as the Varna Summer Opera Festival, V International Mussorgsky Festival in Tver, Russia and the IV Stars Parade International Festival in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, and participated in concerts and opera performances in Germany, France, Finland, South Korea, Cyprus, and Hungary, among others.

Agunda Kulaeva graduated from the Rostov State S.V. Rachmaninov Conservatory, both as a choral conductor and as a singer (with Prof. Khudoverdova), and from Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center in Moscow, where she was heard as Siebel in Faust, Lyubasha in The Tsar's Bride, and Maddalena in Rigoletto.

She is a prize winner at the 14th Boris Christoff International Competition for Young Opera Singers in Bulgaria (3rd Prize, 2009).