Marina Shaguch

• 1^st prize at the Rosa Ponselle International Opera Singers' Competition (USA, 1992)
• 2^nd prize at the Tchaikovsky International Opera Singers' Competition (1990)
• 1^st prize at the Musorgsky All-Russian Opera Singers' Competition (1989)
• 1^st prize at the Glinka All-Russian Singers' Competition (1989)

Маrina Shaguch was born in Krasnodar. She graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 1990 (class of Professor Tamara Novichenko) and was invited to join the Mariinsky Opera Company.

Roles she has sung at the Mariinsky Theatre include:
Lyudmila (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Parasya (Sorochintsy Fair)
Таtianа (Eugene Onegin)
Iolanta (Iolanta in concert)
Volkhova (Sadko)
Маrfa (The Tsar's Bride)
Fevronia, Sirin (The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia)
Princess (Kashchei the Immortal)
Leonora (Il trovatore)
Priestess (Aida)
Desdemona (Otello)
First Lady (Die Zauberflöte)
Elsa (Lohengrin in concert)
Аriadne, Prima Donna (Ariadne auf Naxos)

Her repertoire also includes the roles of Antonida (A Life for the Tsar), Donna Anna (The Stone Guest), Маria (Mazepa), Мlada (Mlada), Оxana (Christmas Eve), Zemfira (Aleko), Francesca (Francesca da Rimini), Leonora (La forza del destino), Еlisabeth de Valois (Don Carlo), Мimì (La Bohème), Liù (Turandot), Маrguerite (Faust), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and Countess (Le nozze di Figaro).
Marina Shaguch's concert repertoire includes the soprano roles in cantatas and masses, Bach's Passions, Pergolesi's Stabat mater, Mozart's Requiem and masses, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Missa solemnis, Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem, Rossini's Stabat mater, Schubert's Salve regina and masses, Verdi's Requiem and Te Deum, Bruckner's Te Deum, Dvořák's Stabat mater, Fauré's Requiem, Mahler's Second, Third and Eighth Symphonies, Rakhmaninov's vocal-symphonic poem The Bells, Poulenc's Stabat mater, Britten's War Requiem, Shostakovich's Fourteenth Symphony, Szymanowski's Stabat mater and von Zemlinsky's Lyrische Symphonie in addition to vocal cycles, romances and songs by Strauss, Berg, Schoenberg, Musorgsky and Shostakovich.

Маrina Shaguch has toured to Germany, France, Italy, the USA, Scotland, Finland, the Netherlands and Israel. She has appeared with the Tokyo, San Francisco, Hartford, Houston and Rotterdam Symphony Orchestras, the American Symphony Orchestra, the Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Scottish Orchestra. She has worked with many outstanding contemporary musicians, including conductors Leon Botstein, James Conlon, Michael Tilson Thomas, Valery Gergiev, Eri Klas, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Andreas Delfs, Christoph Eschenbach, Aisling Drury Byrne, Eliahu Inbal and Alexander Vedernikov and singers Sergei Leiferkus and Plácido Domingo to name but a few.
Marina Shaguch made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1995-96 season in the role of Tatiana (Eugene Onegin). In the 1998-99 season, she sang at Buckingham Palace, performing the second act of Otello with Plácido Domingo and Valery Gergiev.

Recordings featuring Marina Shaguch have been released by major labels such as Philips Classics, BMG, Conifer, Chandos, Octavia, Supraphon and Hänssler.