Yulia Novikova

As Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, Part Two. The labyrinth at the Salzburg Festival 2012

Julija Novikowa ( Russian Юлия Новикова ; born 1983 in Leningrad ) is a Russian opera singer ( coloratura soprano ).

Life

Nowikova's music lessons began at the age of five, she learned the piano and flute. She completed her vocal training at the St. Petersburg Conservatory , where she already appeared as Susanna , Serpina and as Marfa in Rimski-Korsakov's Die Zarenbraut .

In 2006 she made her debut at the Mariinsky Theater as Flora in The Turn of the Screw , under the musical direction of Valeri Gergijew , and was engaged at the Dortmund Opera, where she performed the Olympia in Hoffmann's stories until 2008 , Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia , Gilda sang in Rigoletto and the Queen of Schemacha in Rimsky-Korsakov's Golden Rooster . She played the Queen of the Night for the first time at the Frankfurt Opera , a role that also brought her to Bonn , Hamburg , Berlin and Vienna . In Bonn she has since sung the Medoro in Orlando furioso and the Oscar in the masked ball , Blonde , Gilda , the overseer in Strauss ' Elektra and Princess Ninetta in Sergei Prokofiev's love for the three oranges , Musetta and Adina , and in 2011 Amina in La sonnambula .

At the Operalia competition by Plácido Domingo in 2009, Nowikowa won both the jury's first prize and the audience prize; a little later she was in front of the camera with Domingo and acted as Gilda in the Rigoletto film adaptation on original locations, which was broadcast live by television companies in 148 countries. After her debut at the Vienna State Opera in November 2009 as Queen of the Night, she has since sang leading roles in the children's operas Aladdin and the Magic Lamp and Pünktchen and Anton , the Oscar, Zerbinetta and the Fiakermilli , as well as Adina in the love potion at the side of Juan Diego Flórez . Debuts in Strasbourg, Lyon and Toulouse, at the Komische Oper Berlin and at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste followed. Novikova made her debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2011 as a nightingale in a concert performance of Stravinsky's Le rossignol and in 2012 sang the Queen of the Night in the Residenzhof , not in Mozart's opera, but in its sequel The Magic Flute, Part Two. The labyrinth by Emanuel Schikaneder and Peter von Winter .

Julija Novikowa sang a. a. at the Muziekdriedaagse Festival in The Hague, at the Grachten Festival in Amsterdam, in Bordeaux, Nancy and Paris, in the Carnegie Hall in New York and at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest. At the celebration of the jubilee of the end of National Socialist rule, the artist sang arias by Johann Strauss and Jacques Offenbach in front of an audience of 10,000 on May 8, 2013 on Heldenplatz in Vienna .

Awards

• 2006 Third prize at the Wilhelm Stenhammar International Music Competition, Sweden
• 2007 audience award at the Concours de Genève , Switzerland
• 2007 Audience Award at the International Singing Competition New Voices , Germany
• 2008 first prize at Musik Debüt, Landau in der Pfalz , Germany
• 2009 First Prize and Audience Prize at Operalia , Budapest
• 2013 Luitpold Prize of the Kissinger Sommer festival

Web links

• Julia Novikova homepage
• Julia Novikova at Operabase (engagements and dates)