Nadezhda Serdyuk

• Prize-winner at the International Elena Obraztsova Young Opera Singers’ Competition (1999)
• Prize-winner at the International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers’ Competition (1998)
• Prize-winner at the International Glinka Vocalists’ Competition (1995)

Nadezhda Serdyuk graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in 1997. After graduating from the Conservatoire she became a soloist with the New Opera in Moscow.
In 1998 she entered the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers.
Soloist with the Mariinsky Opera Company since 2007.

Her repertoire includes:
Olga (Eugene Onegin)
Polina, Milovzor (The Queen of Spades)
Spring Beauty (The Snow Maiden)
Lyubava (Sadko)
Lyubasha (The Tsar’s Bride)
Mademoiselle Blanche (The Gambler)
Clarice (The Love for Three Oranges)
Clara (Betrothal in a Monastery)
Hélène Bezukhova (War and Peace)
Varya (The Story of a Real Man in concert)
Jocasta (Oedipus Rex)
Argafena Alexandrovna (The Brothers Karamazov)
Adalgisa (Norma in concert)
Fenena (Nabucco)
Flora Bervoix (La traviata)
Preziosilla (La forza del destino)
Lola (Cavalleria rusticana in concert)
Frugola (Il tabarro)
Nursing Sister, Monitress (Suor Angelica)
Giulietta (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)
Idamante (Idomeneo, rè di Creta)
Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro)
Dorabella (Così fan tutte)
Waltraute (Die Walküre)
Flosshilde (Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung)
the Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos)

The singer’s repertoire also includes the roles of Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Leonora (La favorite), Albine (Thaïs), Mother (Mavra), Death (Le Rossignol), Joan (The Maid of Orleans) and Mistress of the Inn (Boris Godunov)  as well as the mezzo-soprano roles in Bach’s Magnificat, Mozart’s Requiem, Verdi’s Requiem, Saint-Saëns’ Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, Stravinsky’s Les Noces and Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater.

Nadezhda Serdyuk has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company to New York (Metropolitan Opera), London (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), Paris (Théâtre du Châtelet), Milan (La Scala), Washington (Kennedy Center), Tokyo, Madrid, Amsterdam and Baden-Baden; she has taken part in the Mikkeli Music Festival (Finland).
She has taken part in a production of Prokofiev’s opera The Love for Three Oranges in Aix-en-Provence (2004), Luxembourg (2005) and Madrid (Teatro Real, 2006). In the 2008-2009 season she performed the role of Albine ( Thaïs ) and Polina (The Queen of Spades) at the Teatro Regio (Turin). She has collaborated with many renowned contemporary conductors, among them Valery Gergiev, Gianandrea Noseda, Yevgeny Kolobov, Yuri Bashmet, Saulus Sondeckis, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Michael Tilson Thomas and Helmuth Rilling.

The singer’s discography includes recordings of the operas The Love for Three Oranges and Thaïs s and Mozart’s Requiem.