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Mezzo Soprano
Olesya Petrova
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Daniele Rustioni, Conductor
Nicolas Joël, Stage Director
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Biography Highlights
Upcoming
Madelon Andrea Chénier, Amneris Aida at the Metropolitan Opera, debut with Opera Royal Wallonie as the Countess The Queen of Spades, debut at Carnegie Hall with a recital, debut with Accademia Santa-Cecilia, Italian Opera Gala with Aarhus Symfoniorkester, Mahler’s Symphony No.8 with Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
Recent
Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death with La Monnaie de Bruxelles, title role Carmen in concert with NCPA Mumbai (Zubin Mehta), Amneris Aida at Opera Hong Kong and 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, Azucena Il Trovatore with Metropolitan Opera, 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 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 Helsingborg Koncerthus, 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 Das 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
Santuzza in “Cavalleria Rusticana”
Santuzza in “Cavalleria Rusticana”
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.
