Lyubov Sokolova

Mezzo-soprano

Prize winner of the International Competition in Perm (1997, 2nd prize)

Lyubov Sokolova was born in Chelyabinsk. Graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of N.A. Serval) in 1993. Joined the Mariinsky Opera Company as a trainee the same year. In 1995 she completed a post-graduate study at the conservatoire (class of A.N. Kiselev).
Joined the Mariinsky Opera Company in 1993.

Her repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Vanya (A Life for the Tsar)
Ratmir (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Marfa (Khovanshchina)
Lyubava, Nezhata (Sadko)
Young Boy (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia)
Olga, Larina (Eugene Onegin)
Lyubov (Mazepa)
Yevpraksiya Romanovna (The Enchantress)
The Countess (The Queen of Spades)
Perfilevna, Vlasievna (The Maid of Pskov)
Death (Le Rossignol)
Babulenka (The Gambler)
Sonetka, Convict (Katerina Ismailova)
Berta (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Maddalena (Rigoletto)
Flora Bervoix (La traviata)
Amneris (Aida)
Ulrica (Un ballo in maschera)
Emilia (Otello)
Suzuki (Madama Butterfly)
the Princess (Suor Angelica)
Anna (Les Troyens)
Erda (Das Rheingold)
Herodias’ Page (Salome)
Miss Jessel (The Turn of the Screw)
the Deaconess (Król Roger)

The singer’s repertoire also includes the roles of Tsarevich Fyodor (Boris Godunov), Polina (The Queen of Spades) and the mezzo-soprano roles in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony and Tchaikovsky’s cantata Moscow.

With the Mariinsky Opera Company Lyubov Sokolova has toured to Germany, Finland, (Savonlinna Festival), Portugal, France, Spain, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Israel, Japan, Italy and South America.
From 2006 to 2011 she has taken part in the annual opera festival in Bregenz (Austria), where she has performed the roles of Azucena (Il trovatore) and Amneris (Aida); she has taken part in productions of the operas The Passenger by Weinberg and Krуl Roger by Szymanowski and a performance of Britten’s Stabat Mater and Spring Symphony.

The singer’s discography includes recordings of the operas Salome, Ivan the Terrible and The Tsar’s Bride (Philips Classics).