Tatiana Pavlovskaya

Soprano

• Honoured Artist of Russia
• Prize-winner at the International Pechkovsky Young Opera Singers´ Competition (St Petersburg, 1994)
• Prize-winner at the International Young Singers´ Competition in Wrocław (Poland, 1994)

Born in Murmansk. Graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire and completed a post-graduate study and assistantship (class of Professor Novichenko).
Made her Mariinsky Theatre debut as Tatiana (Eugene Onegin) in 1995.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Cephalus (Cephalus and Prokris)
Gorislava (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Polovtsian Maiden (Prince Igor)
Tamara (The Demon)
Tatiana (Eugene Onegin)
Maria (Mazepa)
Kupava (The Snow Maiden)
Olga (The Maid of Pskov)
Paulina (The Gambler)
Sofia (Semyon Kotko)
Clara (Betrothal in a Monastery)
Natasha Rostova (War and Peace)
Daughter of Pelageya Grigorievna (The Nose)
Desdemona (Otello)
Alice (Falstaff)
Mimì (La bohème)
Kate Pinkerton, Cousin (Madama Butterfly)
Liù (Turandot)
Antonia (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
Rosina (Le nozze di Figaro)
Elvira (Don Giovanni)
Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte)
Elsa (Lohengrin)
Klingsor's Flower Maiden (Parsifal)
Governess (The Turn of the Screw)
Jenůfa (Jenůfa)

Tatiana Pavlovskaya has performed at the world's leading opera venues, including the Metropolitan Opera (New York), San Francisco Opera, Washington Opera, La Scala (Milan), the Alte Oper (Frankfurt), Carnegie Hall (New York), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Bayerische Staatsoper and international festivals in Ravenna, Salzburg, Baden-Baden, Cincinnati and Glyndebourne.
Tatiana Pavlovskaya also took part in a gala concert at Buckingham Palace with Plácido Domingo and the London Philharmonic under the baton of Valery Gergiev.
Currently, Tatiana Pavlovskaya appears with many internationally acclaimed ensembles. Among them are the Philharmonic Orchestras of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Munich, Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, the Moscow Virtuosi, West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Radio France's Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Brazil. She has performed under such outstanding conductors of the present day as Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Temirkanov, Semyon Bychkov, Mikhail Pletnev, Heinz Fricke, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Ion Marin and James Conlon. In the 2009-2010 season she took part in a performance of The Infernal Comedy featuring John Malkovich.

Pavlovskaya’s vocal style, delicate yet at the same time heartfelt, rich in shades and semitones, gives vocal works a sincere character.”

Utro Peterburga


Special attention should be paid to soloist Tatiana Pavlovskaya, a leading Mariinsky Theatre soloist. For some critics, her style recalls to memory Cecilia Bartoli herself.

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