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Mezzo-soprano
• Honoured Artist of the Russia
• Nominated for a Grammy award in 2001 for her recording of Semyon Kotko (Los Angeles, 2000)
Olga
Savova was born in Leningrad. She graduated from the St Petersburg
State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (vocals faculty, class of Professor
Irina Bogacheva) in 1994. She joined the Mariinsky Opera Company in
1996. Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Marina Mnishek (Boris Godunov)
Marfa (Khovanshchina)
The Angel (The Demon)
Olga (Eugene Onegin)
Lyubov (Mazepa)
Princess Evpraksiya (The Enchantress)
Polina (The Queen of Spades)
Spring Beauty (The Snow Maiden)
Lyubasha (The Tsar's Bride)
Jocasta (Oedipus Rex)
Blanche (The Gambler)
Frosya (Semyon Kotko)
Hélène, Sonya (War and Peace)
Sonyetka (Katerina Ismailova)
Azucena (Il trovatore)
Preziosilla (La forza del destino)
Eboli (Don Carlo)
Amneris (Aida)
Emilia (Otello)
Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana)
Carmen (Carmen)
Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde)
Wellgunde (Das Rheingold)
Brünnhilde (Die Walküre)
Erda (Siegfried)
Waltraute (Götterdämmerung)
Clytemnestra (Elektra)
The Nurse (Die Frau ohne Schatten)
Her repertoire also includes the mezzo-soprano roles in Verdi's Requiem and Berlioz' dramatic legend La damnation de Faust. She has also sung the parts of Eboli (Don Carlo, Tel Aviv, 2006), Laura (Ponchielli's La Gioconda, 2006), Lyubov (Mazepa, Metropolitan Opera, 2006), and Amneris (Aida, Belgium). Olga
Savova has worked with such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Bertrand de
Billy, Jean-Louis Grinda and Asher Fisch. She has taken part in
international music festivals in Mikkeli (Finland) and Rotterdam (the
Netherlands), as well as the Moscow Easter Festival. She has toured
throughout the world with the Mariinsky Opera Company, performing in
Europe (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and La Scala), the USA
(Metropolitan Opera, Kennedy Center) and Japan. She has given solo
recitals in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, the USA, Japan,
China and Israel.
In 2004, she took part in the Mariinsky Theatre's production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at
the Festspielhaus (Baden-Baden). In the 2005-2006 season Olga Savova
gave a solo concert of Russian arias in Gran Canaria, and in 2007 she
took part in a performance of Boris Godunov at the Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles).
Olga Savova has taken part in recordings of the operas The Story of a Real Man and Semyon Kotko with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under Valery Gergiev.
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