Lia Shevtsova was born in Leningrad. She graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 1994.
Made her Mariinsky Theatre debut in 1993 as the First Lady (Die Zauberflöte).
Roles she has performed at the Mariinsky Theatre include:
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)
Ines (Il trovatore)
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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