Antonina Wessenina
Antonina Wessenina ( Russian Антониа Весенина , also transcribed Antonina Vesenina ; born February 19, 1986 in Voronezh ) is a Russian opera singer with a soprano voice . She has been a member of the Academy for Young Opera Singers of the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg since 2011 .
life and work
Antonina Wessenina studied singing at the music college in her hometown, where Natalja Savitskaya was her teacher. In 2010 she finished her studies. She also attended master classes with Larissa Gergijewa , Gegam Grigorjan and Jelena Obraszowa . She was able to achieve a number of successes in international singing competitions, including in Kazan , Moscow , Saint Petersburg , Volgograd and Toulouse . From 2010 to 2011 she was a member of the St. Petersburg Chamber Opera, where she sang Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto .
In 2011 she was accepted into the Academy for Young Opera Singers of the Mariinsky Theater and has appeared several times in Mariinsky, as Queen of the Night and Queen of Schemacha, as Clorinda and as Rosina. But she also worked on a number of other games there.
Since 2015 she has been a regular guest at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, both as Queen of the Night and Queen of Schemacha. Bach Track wrote of her performance in the Rimsky-Korsakov Opera: “She sang great. She reminds me of Anna Netrebko in her early Kirov days […]. Wessenina's height is laser-like and she sings Rimsky-Korsakov's sinuous, chromatic dangling movements with great ease. Her "Hymn to the Sun" - sung in French and English [...] - was the vocal highlight of the evening. "
She also appeared at the Komische Oper Berlin , also as Queen of the Night.
Roles (selection)
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Britten :
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Puccini :
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Rossini :
Verdi :
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Sources for the list of roles: Mariinsky Theater and Operabase.
Competitions
- 2007 First prize at the 2nd International Student Singing Competition in Volgograd
- 2013 Second prize at the 3rd Pawel Lisizian International Singing Competition in Vladikavkaz
- 2013 First prize at the 3rd Maxim Mikhailov International Singing Competition in Kaluga
- 2014 Grand Prix at the 1st International Singing Competition Opera without Borders in Krasnodar
- 2015 fourth prize at the 15th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow
- 2016 Third prize at the 51st Concours International de Chant de Toulouse
Web links
- XV. International Tchaikovsky Competition , audio document
- Antonina Vesenina , own website
- Deutsche Oper am Rhein , short biography of the singer
- Antonina Vesenina at Operabase (engagements and dates)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mariinsky Theater : ANTONINA VESENINA , accessed on December 5, 2017
- ↑ Mark Pullinger: The golden rooster as sharp political satire in Düsseldorf , bachtrack, April 16, 2016
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| SURNAME | Wessenina, Antonina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Весенина, Антониа (Russian); Vesenina, Antonina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian soprano |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Voronezh |