Irina Samoilova

Irina Samoilova ( Russian Ирина Самойлова ; * in Moscow ) is a Russian singer ( soprano ).

Samoilova studied choral conducting and singing at the Schnittke music college after attending the Shaporin music school. From 1993 to 1999 she studied solo singing with Galina Oleinichenko . In 1998 she won the Grand Prize at the Bello Vove National Singing Competition and the Luis Sigall International Singing Competition in Chile, and in 2000 first prize at the Tomaz Alkaide International Competition in Portugal. In 1999 she was a participant in the Musical Olympus festival in Saint Petersburg. In the same year she also gave two concerts with orchestra in Santiago.

Since 2002 she has been a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater . In 2003 she made her debut as Norina in Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale at the Helikon-Oper , of which she has been a member of the ensemble since 2005. Her repertoire here includes a. the Violetta in Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata and the Marfa in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride . Furthermore her repertoire includes u. a. the title roles in Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix and Michail Glinkas Ruslan and Ljudmila , Micaëla in Georges Bizet's Carmen and the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute .

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• Bolshoi Moscow - Opera and Ballet - Irina Samoilova
• Helikon Opera - Irina Samoilova