Anastasia Donets

Soprano

• Prize-winner at the XI Elena Obraztsova International Competition of Young Opera Singers (St Petersburg, 2017, 3^rd prize)
• Prize-winner at the V International Pavel Lisitsian Competition (Vladikavkaz, 2017, 3^rd prize)

Studied at the Stavropol Regional Safonov College of Music (Mineralnye Vody). In 2015 she graduated from the Russian Institute of Theatre Art (GITIS). Trained in the workshop of Alexander Titel and Igor Yasulovich and studied singing under Olga Mironova.

From 2013 to 2015 she was a guest soloist with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Musical Theatre where she made her debut as the First Lady in the opera Die Zauberflöte.
In 2014 she performed the role of Carolina in a premiere of a production of Il matrimonio segreto and as Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice .

In 2015, she trained at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, working with the conductors Laurent Campellone and Corrado Rovaris, and has also taken part in master-classes with Ruggero Raimondi.

Since 2015 she has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers.
In 2016, she made her debut as Nastenka in Yuri Butsko's opera White Nights.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Petrovna (The Story of a Real Man, concert performance)
Anna (The Diary of Anne Frank)
Alexandra (Idiot)
Gerda (The Story of Kai and Gerda)
First Lady (Die Zauberflöte)
Nastenka (White Nights)
Tisbe (La Cenerentola)
Noémie (Cendrillon in concert)
Serpetta (La finta giardiniera in concert)
Silvia (L'isola disabitata)
Sofia (Il signor Bruschino in concert)
Suzy (La rondine, concert performance)
Sister Dolcina and a Lay-sister (Suor Angelica)
A Gipsy Woman (Les Huguenots)
Gavrilin’s vocal cycle Three Songs of Ophelia from the Tragedy “Hamlet” by Shakespeare
She appears in children’s productions at the Mariinsky Theatre (title role in The Little Prince, the Little Girl in Soldier’s Tales and Scenes from the Life of Nikolenka Irtenev, Ustinya in The Giant, Loskutik in Loskutik and the Cloud, the Little Birch-Tree in The Turnip).

Repertoire also includes: Mimì (La Bohème), Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice), Carolina (Il matrimonio segreto), Micaëla (Carmen), Marguerite (Faust), Pamina, Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Tatiana (Eugene Onegin), Natasha (Not Love Alone) and Alexandra Yepanchina (Weinberg's The Idiot).