Margarita Gritskova

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Margarita Gritskova ( Russian Маргарита Грицкова , Margarita Grizkowa ; born December 19, 1987 in Leningrad ) is a Russian opera and lied singer with a mezzo-soprano voice .

Life

She studied singing at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory with Irina Petrovna Bogacheva. The young artist won several international singing competitions. In 2008 she sang the title role in Georges Bizet's Carmen at the St. Petersburg Conservatory Theater of opera under the direction of Mariss Jansons . Engagements led Gritskova to the music stages of Tenerife, St. Moritz and Budapest. Since the 2010/11 season she has been part of the music theater ensemble of the German National Theater Weimar . There she shone as Carmen, Maddalena in Rigoletto , Ottone in The Coronation of Poppea , Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro , Bramante in Alcina , Olga in Eugene Onegin , Flora in La traviata .

In the 2012/13 season the singer moved to the Vienna State Opera . Here she sang the following roles, among others: Dorabella in Così fan tutte , Sesto and Annio in La clemenza di Tito , Idamante in Idomeneo , Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro , Fjodor in Boris Godunow , Dryad in Ariadne auf Naxos , Smeton in Anna Bolena , Rosina in The Barber of Seville , Angelina and Tisbe in La Cenerentola , Isabella in L'italiana in Algeri , Mascha in Tri sestri , Krista in Věc Makropulos and most recently the title role in Carmen .

In 2015 she made her debut as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro at the Summer Festival in Salzburg . She also appeared at the Rossini Festivals in Bald Wildbad and Pesaro and in 2017 played the role of Isolier in Le comte Ory at the Klosterneuburg Opera . She also participated in numerous concerts in part, most recently in September 2017 at the farewell concert of José Carreras in the Carnegie Hall in New York .

Prices

  • 2001: First prize at the II Rachmaninoff Open Regional Festival
  • 2003: Grand Prix at the II open Rubinstein children's competition
  • 2004: Winner of the international competition Under the Sign of Talents for particularly gifted children - awarded the Academician Lichatschow Star
  • 2006: Prize winner of the III. open Russian music competition for voice and piano duo
  • 2007: Prize winner of the III. open Russian music competition for opera singers
  • 2008: Awarded the Youngest Talent Prize at the Luciano Pavarotti International Competition in Modena
  • 2009: First prize and award as the youngest talent at the IV international competition in Colmenar Viejo (Spain)
  • 2009: Winner of the Russian public program The Hopes of Russia
  • 2010: Final participation in the international singing festival Operalia

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margarita Gritskovas performances at the Vienna State Opera
  2. ↑ Salzburg Festival: Salzburg Festival> INSTITUTION> ARCHIVE> Archive detail. Retrieved November 21, 2017 (Austrian German).
  3. ↑ | operklosterneuburg |. Retrieved November 21, 2017 .
  4. ↑ José Carreras, tenor. Retrieved November 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Gritskova, Margarita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grizkowa, Magarita; Грицкова, Маргарита (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian opera and lieder singer with a mezzo-soprano voice
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad