Lia Shevtsova was born in Leningrad. Graduated from the St Petersburg
State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 1994. Made her Mariinsky Theatre
in 1993 as the First Lady (Die Zauberflöte). Joined the Mariinsky Opera Company the same year.
Repertoire includes:
Polovtsian Maiden (Prince Igor)
Emma (Khovanshchina)
Merchant-Woman, a Novgorod Citizen’s Wife (Mlada)
Woman with an Unusual Nose (Christmas Eve)
Cook (Le rossignol)
Nicoletta (The Love for Three Oranges)
Clara (Betrothal in a Monastery)
The Bolkonsky’s Maid, Dunyasha, Murat’s Adjutant (War and Peace)
Maria Kondratievna (The Brothers Karamazov)
Arsinoe (La Cleopatra)
Lady of the Court (Macbeth)
Annina (La traviata)
Curra (La forza del destino)
Priestess (Aida)
Marguerite (Faust)
Micaëla (Carmen)
Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro)
Gerhilde (Die Walküre)
Wellgunde, Second Norn (Das Rheindold, Götterdämmerung)
Page, Klingsor’s Flower Maiden (Parsifal)
Maidservant (Elektra)
Voice of the Falcon (Die Frau ohne Schatten)
Barena (Jenůfa)
Lia Shevtsova has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company to
Germany, Finland, Israel, France, Spain, Luxemburg, the Netherlands,
Sweden, the USA, Italy, Japan, Turkey, the UK and China.
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