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Mezzo Soprano
Olesya Petrova
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Upcoming Past
Mar 2025
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Oliver Díaz, Conductor
Stefano Trespidi, Stage Director
Mar 2025
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Oliver Díaz, Conductor
Stefano Trespidi, Stage Director
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Dec 2024
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Valery Gergiev, Conductor
Pier Luigi Pizzi, Stage Director
Dec 2024
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Daniele Callegari, Conductor
David McVicar, Stage Director
Dec 2024
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Daniele Callegari, Conductor
David McVicar, Stage Director
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Biography Highlights
Upcoming
Azucena Il Trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera, title role Carmen at Mumbai Opera with Mro Mehta, Amneris Aida at Teatro Cervantes Malaga, Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 D Minor at the Mahler Festival 2025 with NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo, Mahler Festival: Fabio Luisi and NHK Symphony Orchestra - Mahler's Symphony No. 3 at Het Concertgebouw, Sergei Prokofiev's Iván el Terrible with Pablo González and Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España, Alexander Nevsky with Orquestra De La Comunitat Valenciana.
Recent
Azucena Il Trovatore with Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino at the Ljubljana Festival with Mro Mehta, Madame Ulrica Arvidsson Un Ballo in maschera at the Metropolitan Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin, Amneris Aida at the Metropolitan Opera, The Royal Opera House and Arena di Verona, Fortune teller The Fiery Angel at Teatro Real, Azucena Il Trovatore in Rovigo, Treviso and at Teatro Colón Buenos Aires. Azucena Il Trovatore in concert and Verdi’s Requiem with Auckland Philharmonic, Kozlowski’s Requiem with Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Verdi’s Requiem with Maestro Fabio Luisi and NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo, with Maestro Chichon and Orquestra Filarmonica de Gran Canaria in Las Palmas, at Casa da Musica Porto, and at Bratislava Festival with Maestro Villaume, Mahler’s Lied von der Erde with RTVE Orchestra in Madrid, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky with Basque National Orchestra, Elgar’s Sea Pictures at Teatro Lirico di Cagliari.
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Verdi's Requiem
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Verdi's Requiem
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Un Ballo in Maschera: “Re dell’abisso”
Metropolitan Opera
Un Ballo in Maschera: “Re dell’abisso”
Metropolitan Opera
Verdi's Messa Da Requiem
Verdi's Messa Da Requiem
Reviews & Press
Metropolitan Opera - Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera - Ulrica
I was again very impressed with the Russian mezzo-soprano Olesya Petrova as the fortuneteller Ulrica after her excellently sung Amneris last season. The tone was warm, enveloping and richly plangent while she managed the wide range from contralto depths to high mezzo tops without any ungainly gear shifting or register breaks. This was a musical, authoritative and confident traversal of the role.
- Eli Jacobson , Parterre Box
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Olesya Petrova ... with a fruity mezzo and commanding stage presence... Petrova’s singing was infallibly musical, with an elegance to her phrasing and perfectly integrated registers.
- Kevin W Ng , Bachtrack
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...Olesya Petrova was a chic fortune teller, revealing Ulrica’s prophesies in her plummy, dark mezzo-soprano.
- Rick Perdian , New York Classical Review
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Verdi - Il Trovatore - Azucena
Originally, the Italian maestro wanted to place the character of Azucena at the centre and name the opera after her: In this guest performance of this popular work by the Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino at the Cankar Centre in the Slovenian capital, Olesya Petrova does full justice to this function, fulfilling it not only with her powerful voice, but also with great stage presence and glowing, creative and haunting power.
