WIENER STAATSOPER
Hindemith / Cardillac - Die Dame
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Premiere: 29 March, 2012
1/4 April, 2012

Wagner / Parsifal - Blumenmädchen
Christian Thielemann, conductor
5/8/12 April, 2012


BEETHOVENFEST BONN 2012
Recital, Lieder and arias by Bach, Haendel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Tschaikovsky a.o.
7 October, 2012

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.