WIENER STAATSOPER
Mozart / Zauberflöte - Pamina
May 3/6, 2013


OPÉRA DE LIMOGES
Verdi / Il Trovatore - Dona Leonora
March 09/11/23/25, 2014

Olga Bezsmertna, soprano

Olga Bezsmertna has been member of the ensemble at Vienna State Opera since February 2012, where she made a spectacular house debut as Dame in Hindemith's Cardillac conducted by Franz Welser-Möst: "From this superb voice certainly exciting things will be heard also in the popular repertoire in the near future." (Die Presse) At the Nurejew-Gala at the Vienna State Opera she impressed the audience with her interpretation of Vier letzte Lieder by Richard Srauss, accompanied by the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera. In the season 2012/13 at the Vienna State Opera Olga Bezsmertna will be part of cast in Elektra, Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Fledermaus, Pollicino and Götterdämmerung.

At the beginning of the 2012/13 season she will make her debut at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn with a recital of songs by Bach, Haendel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Tchaikovsky. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the competition "Neue Stimmen" of the Bertelsmann Foundation Olga Bezsmertna will perform as the latest winner and as Neu Stimme 2011 during a gala at theater Gütersloh.

Last year Olga Bezsmertna was by the jury unanimously elected NEUE STIMME 2011. The jury was chaired by Dominique Meyer. Prior to this, in summer 2011 she participated in the Young Singers Project in Salzburg.

In 2010 and in 2011 Olga Bezsmertna was among the finalists at the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna. At the 2008 European Opera Singing competition DEBUT she won both first prize and the people’s choice as well as the Puccini award. In 2006 she received an award at the International Rimsky-Korsakov Vocal Competition in St. Petersburg, followed by an engagement at Oper Oder-Spree Festival in 2007.

Her repertoire includes Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro), Pamina (Zauberflöte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Fiordiligi (Cosí fan tutte), Micaela (Carmen), Marguerite (Faust), Nedda (I Pagliacci), Marfa (Die Zarenbraut), Tatjana (Eugen Onegin), Jolanthe (Iolanta), Zemfira (Aleko), Margherita (Mefistofele).

Olga Bezsmertna graduated from the Kiev National Academy of Music in Ukraine in 2010.