Victoria Loukianetz

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Victoria Loukianetz , also Viktoria Loukianetz or Loukianets , Ukrainian Вікторія Лук'янець (born November 20, 1966 in Kiev ) is a Ukrainian opera singer with a soprano voice .

Career

Loukianetz began a musical education at the age of five and received piano lessons . She began her voice training at the age of fourteen. In 1989 she successfully completed her studies at the National Music Academy of Ukraine Peter Tchaikovsky . In the same year she became a soloist at the Kiev National Opera. She made her debut there with the role of Marfa in the opera The Tsar's Bride by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov . In the same role she made her debut at the Bolshoi Theater in 1993 .

In 1990 she won first prize at the Min-On International Singing Competition in Tokyo and at the International Mozart Competition . In 1991 she won first prize at the international Maria Callas competition in Athens . Debuts in Italy , France , Portugal , Japan and Greece followed .

In 1993 she made her debut at the Vienna State Opera as Queen of the Night in Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte , where she remained a permanent member of the ensemble until 2000. There she sang Gilda in Rigoletto , Violetta in La Traviata , Oscar in Un ballo in maschera , Adina in Der Liebestrank , the title roles in Linda di Chamounix and Lucia di Lammermoor , Elvira in I puritani , Rosina in The Barber of Seville , Ophèlie in Hamlet , Olympia in Hoffmanns Erzählungen , Musetta in La Bohème and in 1998 Berthe in a new production of Meyerbeer's Le Prophète with Plácido Domingo and Agnes Baltsa .

In 1995 she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival as Violetta under the direction of Riccardo Muti . Since then she has been considered one of the leading interpreters of this role, but also of the entire bel canto repertoire.

Victoria Loukianetz has guested at the following opera houses: Metropolitan Opera (debut 1997 in La Traviata ), Scala di Milano (1995 in Die Zauberflöte , 1996 and 1998 as Woglinde in Das Rheingold , also 1997 in Lucia di Lammermoor ), Covent Garden Opera (2000 in La Traviata , Rigoletto , Il corsaro ), Opéra Bastille (1997 in La Traviata ), Salzburg Festival ( La Traviata , Don Giovanni ), Tokyo ( Lucia di Lammermoor , 1999 in La Traviata , Der Liebestrank , Un ballo in maschera ), Bavarian State Opera Munich ( Il Barbiere di Siviglia ), Hamburg State Opera ( Der Liebestrank ), State Theater Nuremberg (1999 as Violetta in La Traviata ), Deutsche Oper Berlin (2002 as Dircé in Médée , 2001 in Lucia di Lammermoor , La Traviata ), Aaltotheater Essen (2002 as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos ), Grand Théâtre de Genève (1997 in Rigoletto ), New Israeli Opera ( La Traviata ), at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste (2001 in Ginevra di Scozia ), as well as at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie i n Liège (2004/2005 as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni , 2002/2003 as Gilda in Rigoletto ).

In the 2006/2007 season she sang Violetta at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires . In the 2006/2007 season she also made a guest appearance as Elettra in Mozart's opera Idomeneo at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and in 2007/2008 as Marie in the revival of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's opera The Soldiers at the New National Theater Tokyo. In the 2008/2009 season she also gave a guest performance with Violetta at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen .

The voice of Victoria Loukianetz is also documented on several CDs (Mozart's C minor Mass and Haydn's Nelson Mass , in Josef Mysliveček's oratorio Abramo ed Isacco , Russian opera arias) and on DVD ( Der Liebestrank in Tokio).

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SURNAME Loukianetz, Victoria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loukianetz, Victoria; Loukianets, Victoria; Лук'янець, Вікторія
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev