Olga Bezsmertna, soprano
In an almost unanimous jury
decision Olga Bezsmertna was chosen to be the NEUE STIMME 2011. The Ukranian
soprano received the 1st prize of the International Singing Competition of the
Bertelsmann Foundation. In summer 2011 she participated in the Young Singers
Project in Salzburg.
Olga Bezsmertna was among
the finalists at the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing. In 2010 and in
2011 she 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 and Puccini awards. In 2006 she received an award at the
International Rimsky-Korsakov Vocal Competition in St. Petersburg. From February
2012 Olga Bezsmertna is a permanent member of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera.
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 (The Tsar’s Bride), TATYANA (Eugen Onegin), IOLANTA
(Iolanta), ZEMFIRA (Aleko), MARGHERITA (Mefistofele).Olga Bezsmertna completed
her studies at the Kiev National Academy of Music in Ukraine in 2010.