Natalia Domskaya

Natalia Domskaya studied music at the Leningrad State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire. In 1980, after graduating from the Conservatoire, she joined the Mariinsky Opera Company as an opera concert mistress. Over the course of her career at the Theatre, Natalia Domskaya has been involved in many opera productions, among them Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades staged by Yuri Temirkanov.
Natalia Domskaya has mastered the Theatre’s entire opera repertoire, including works in English, German, French and Italian as well as in Russian, and she works with singers as a vocal coach. Well-skilled at reading scores, she has created a piano transposition of the opera Boris Godunov using Musorgsky’s manuscripts.

Natalia Domskaya is currently responsible for the musical preparation of the operas Faust by Charles Gounod, The Fiery Angel by Sergei Prokofiev, The Enchanted Wanderer by Rodion Shchedrin, Igor Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex and Hector Berlioz’ dramatic legend La Damnation de Faust among others.
She has worked with such outstanding musicians as Valery Gergiev, Yuri Temirkanov, Yevgeny Kolobov, Eve Queler, John Cannon, Plácido Domingo and Henri Dutilleux.
She has performed in concert halls throughout Russia and abroad with Nikolai Putilin, Yuri Marusin, Lyubov Kazarnovskaya, Bulat Minzhilkiev, Marianna Tarasova, Irina Bogacheva, Galina Kovaleva and Gennady Bezzubenkov.
She has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company on tour to the USA, Japan, Italy, Germany, Spain and Portugal.